The 1910 catalogue states that Bredius attributed this painting to Jacop Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1652), ascription that was officially accepted by the Museum in 1985. However, neither the typology nor th [+]
The painting resembles the View of Tivoli, in size, type of support and subject matter. Indeed, the overhanging rock in the foreground beside the fishermen would appear to be inspired by that beneath [+]
This fragment -the support is cut on all four sides- is perhaps inspired by an engraving of Van Honthorst`s original The Denial of Saint Peter in Minneapolis, dated about 1620-25 (Posada Kubissa, T.: [+]
Since it entered the Museum, this picture has been attributed to Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1567-1641), but this ascription cannot be sustained. The type of modelling and the treatment of the light [+]
Considered a copy of a portrait by El Greco, the more detailed technique deployed here lacks the loose boldness of his brushstroke but the composition and some of the elements within it remain close t [+]
The painting may illustrate an episode from the Anglo-Dutch wars. Its condition makes it difficult to ascertain its authorship. The handling and arrangement of the clouds point to a late date, around [+]
The earliest documentary reference to this painting appears in the 1772 inventory of the Palace of the Buen Retiro, in which the setting is attributed to Viviano Codazzi (1603/4-1672) and the figures [+]
This painting was first included in the 1873 edition of the Museo del Prado catalogue, which states that it was rescued from the fire at the Alcázar Palace in Madrid in 1734. However, it is not [+]
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Traditionally this painting has been considered a copy of the original by Gerard Dou which, according to Somof (1901) and Martin (1913), was in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, but whose p [+]
The present work is a copy of the Portrait of a Seated Woman (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), which the authors of the Corpus consider to be a workshop product. Another known copy, this one on pane [+]
Although the line work of the drawing has the appearance of being sixteenth century, it is indeed hard to see lay-lines in the paper. since there are no old inscriptions on the drawing itself, nor any [+]
The goddess Eirene, bearing an olive branch, personifies Peace. She is surrounded by allegories of her bounty: prosperity, plenty, the progress of all the arts represented and the rejection of arms, t [+]
A copy of the famous Hellenistic bronze —there is a Roman copy in the Capitolino Museum in Rome— representing a nude boy pulling a thorn out of his foot. The soft modeling, orderly arrangement of his [+]
The piece belongs to a group of four busts of Ethiopians purchased for the Buen Retiro Palace in 1678 by Charles II. Their inspiration comes from models by the French sculptor Nicolas Cordier, the cre [+]
Tuccia was one of the virgins at the temple of Vesta, goddess of fire. Accused of adultery, she proved her innocence by carrying water in a sieve without spilling a drop. This marble head is closely b [+]
This marble statue and other seven more (E000068, E000041, E000062, E000061, E000038, E000069, E000037) were unearthed in about 1500 in Hadrian´s Villa at Tivoli, where the decorated the stage of the [+]