Box 262
Contains 103 Results:
The Baptism of Christ, This painting depicts Christ's baptism. He stands knee-deep in the River Jordan as John the Baptist pours water over his head, baptizing Christ. A crowd of exotically dressed onlookers stands on either side of the river in the foreground. In the background is a city tucked away in the mountains. The triangular figure floating in the sky is a small bust-length representation of God the Father., c.1520
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0509; Public Notes: This painting belongs to the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. The accession number is 1978.2.
The Marriage of the Virgin, This painting depicts the marriage of the Virgin Mary to Saint Joseph., c.1513
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0510; Original stamp identifier: K-1670; Other stamp identifier: Kress Collection; CV Stamp; Public Notes:
The Virgin and Child, Depiction of the Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child in a Dutch landscape.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0511; Public Notes:
Mary with Child, Depiction of the Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child. The mother and child sit in an interior. Behind them are two columns and a distant Dutch landscape.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0512; Public Notes: "B. Van Orley" is written in pencil in the bottom left corner. "Fairfax Murray" is written in pencil the bottom right corner of the photograph.
Virgin and Child in Landscape, Depiction of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child seated in a landscape., c.1550
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0513; Public Notes:
Lady Portrayed as Mary Magdalen, This painting is a portrait of a woman portrayed as Mary Magdalen. She holds an ointment jar and looks seductively at the viewer out of the corner of her eye. The ointment jar is ornately decorated with acanthus leaves and rams' heads., c.1530
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0514; Other stamp identifier: CV Stamp; Public Notes: This painting belonged to Hotel Drouot, the Parisian auction house, in 1918. Previously, this painting has been wrongly attributed to Barend Van Orley.
Vanity, Portrait of a young woman seated at her vanity. A small vase sits in front of her along with a jewelry box, a porcelain dish, and a small box containing spools of thread. She wears a loose fitting dress that almost exposes her right breast and she looks to her left to something outside of the picture plane.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0515; Public Notes: This painting may have been a reinterpretation of Palma Vecchio's "A Blonde Woman." This painting once belonged in the Sedelmeyer Collection.
Lucretia, This painting depicts the death of Lucretia. This is the moment where she takes her own life as a result of her rape by the Etruscan King's son. This event in Roman history is said to have incited the revolution that established the Roman Republic.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0516; Public Notes: This painting is a copy of the original done by Joos van Cleve.
The Entombment, Depiction of the entombment of Christ. He is surrounded by the Virgin Mary and his followers. In the background are other images of scenes from the New Testament, including what appears to be Christ's ascension into Heaven., 1500-1524
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0517; Public Notes:
The Temptations of Saint Anthony the Abbot, Depiction of St. Anthony being tempted by three beautiful women to eat the apple of sin. Behind them is an old bawd symbolizing trickery as she incites him to sin while the monkey in the foreground symbolizing lust pulls on his coat. Scenes in the middle ground are derived from Jacopo de la Voragine's "Golden Legend.", 1520-1524
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0518; Public Notes: The photographer's mark is at the bottom left of the photograph. Although Patinir's signature is the only one noted on this piece, Quentin Metsys's rendering of the figures has been accepted since the mid sixteenth century.
The Flight into Egypt, This painting depicts the Holy Family on their travel into Egypt. Joseph pulls a donkey on which the Virgin and Christ child sit. They are being directed by a male figure who points into the distance.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0519; Public Notes: Our photograph notes that this painting was sold at Christie's auction house on 7/17/1964. The inscription reads "J. Patinir/ 'La Fugo in Egitto'/ Christie's 17-7-64/ Vend. $15288."
Madonna and Child, This painting depicts the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ child in an expansive landscape. Both figures don halos. Christ is wrapped in swaddling clothes and sleeps in his mother's arms. To the left, there is a mountain in the far distance.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0520; Public Notes:
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, This painting depicts the rest of the Holy Family on their flight into Egypt. The Virgin Mary sits nursing the infant Christ in the foreground of an expansive landscape. In the middle ground, Joesph is looking up at angels that are picking fruit from a tree. A winding river and jagged mountain are present in the background., c.1530
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0521; Public Notes: This painting was sold at Sotheby's auction house on July 7,2001 for 48,800 pounds.
Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, This painting depicts the Holy Family's rest on the Flight into Egypt. The Virgin and Child are seated in the foreground next to a small basket and a walking stick. St. Joseph stands behind them picking fruit from a tree. Majority of the picture plane is dominated by landscape, with a winding river and rolling hills to the left of our figures and steep mountains to the right., c.1518-1524
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0522; Public Notes:
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, This painting depicts St. Jerome in the wilderness. He kneels in front of what appears to be a cloak of some sort and a hat that lie on the ground. The lion, a common attribute of the saint, is depicted very faintly in the foreground. These three central focal points are surrounded by an expansive landscape, consisting of mountains, a winding river, and sky.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0523; Public Notes:
Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape, Saint Jerome is depicted as a hermit in the foreground, sitting with his lion. The middle ground tells the story of the final scene in the lion's life according to the "Golden Legend." Here we see two men kneeling before an abbot and asking for forgiveness. They had stolen the monastery's donkey and had been condemned by the lion who was charged with keeping watch., c.1515-1524
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0524; Public Notes: This painting was given to the National Gallery by Mrs. Henry Oppenheimer in 1936. The inventory number is NG4826.
Landscape: A River among Mountains, This painting depicts a winding river running among mountains. Tiny boats float along the river. In the lower left corner of the painting is a small figure sketching under the tree (although not visible in our photograph). This may be a representation of the artist himself., c.1600
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0525; Public Notes: This painting's inventory number is NG1298.
Landscape with a Convent, This painting depicts a convent set in an expansive landscape with mountains and winding rivers. Tiny figures are visible on the path and in the mountains.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0526; Public Notes: The photographer's mark is in the bottom right hand corner.
Sketch of a Landscape, This piece is a drawing of a landscape.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0527; Public Notes: This piece was sold at Sotheby's on 5/13/1964.
Portrait of a Female Donor, Portrait of a female donor seated in a walled garden holding her hands in prayer. She wears a veil on her head and what looks like prayer beads around her neck., c.1505
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.FLEM.0528; Public Notes: This portrait is presumably part of a triptych. This along with the similar male portrait found in the John G. Johnson Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art that would have formed the two lateral wings. It's been suggested that the central panel could have depicted a Virgin and Child of an Annunciation.
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