The Baptism of Christ
around 1515 | Joachim Patinier
Even during his own lifetime, Patinier’s fame extended well beyond the borders of his own country. In the diary he wrote of his journey to the Netherlands (1521), Albrecht Dürer used a term hitherto undocumented in the German language to describe him: a “good landscape artist”. The signed picture is one of Patinier’s major works. The intention and concept of the “world landscape” upon which this picture is based is not the exact reproduction of a topographical reality, rather a cosmos made up of individual parts united in a harmonious whole.
Even during his own lifetime, Patinier’s fame extended well beyond the borders of his own country. In the diary he wrote of his journey to the Netherlands (1521), Albrecht Dürer used a term hitherto undocumented in the German language to describe him: a “good landscape artist”. The signed picture is one of Patinier’s major works. The intention and concept of the “world landscape” upon which this picture is based is not the exact reproduction of a topographical reality, rather a cosmos made up of individual parts united in a harmonious whole.
Artist:
Joachim Patinier (um 1485 Dinant an der Maas - 1524 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1515
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
59,7 cm × 76,3 cm
Framed: 74,2 cm × 91,3 cm × 7,7 cm
Signed
Inscribed on the rock in the foreground: OPVS.IOACHIM.D.PATINIER
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 981
Provenance
Coll. Leopold Wilhelm