material used: oil paint

instance of: painting (87,830) | oil painting (646) | study (156) | triptych (143) | reredos (68) | work (52) | diptych (41) | panel painting (40) | drawing (36) | altarpiece (33) | tondo (29) | polyptych (28) | sketch (28) | unfinished creative work (26) | oil sketch (25) | artwork copy (18) | mural (16) | item of collection or exhibition (16)

commissioned by: Canadian War Memorials Fund (23) | Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay (10) | Napoleon (9) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (8) | Philip IV of Spain (6) | Isabella d'Este (5) | Diego de Bordas (5) | Louis XIV of France (4) | Marie de' Medici (4) | Tribunale della Mercanzia (4) | Louis XV of France (3) | Louis Philippe I (3) | Francesco Maria del Monte (3) | Christian VIII of Denmark (3) | Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (3) | Étienne Chevalier (3) | Franz von Mayer (3) | Philip II of Spain (2)

owned by: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (213) | John G. Johnson (201) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (147) | France (141) | Birmingham Museum of Art (121) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (118) | National Gallery of Armenia (109) | Carmen Cervera (95) | Louisine Havemeyer (95) | Karoline Luise von Baden (87) | Tartu Art Museum (83) | Robert Lehman (82) | Michael Friedsam (73) | Jan Gildemeester (65) | William T. Blodgett (63) | Dallas Museum of Art (57) | Herbert Cook (57) | Benjamin Altman (50)

movement: Flemish Primitives (409) | Dutch Golden Age painting (299) | academic art (282) | Impressionism (265) | High Renaissance (263) | Romanticism (237) | Venetian school (221) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (219) | Baroque (216) | Art Nouveau (183) | rococo (178) | mannerism (165) | neoclassicism (151) | Orientalism (137) | Realism (87) | Italian Renaissance (81) | Realism (72) | German Renaissance (68)

genre: portrait (19,849) | landscape art (8,679) | religious art (8,505) | genre art (3,644) | still life (2,127) | self-portrait (1,557) | mythological painting (1,097) | history painting (1,090) | marine art (945) | nude (938) | cityscape (486) | allegory (429) | floral painting (413) | animal painting (352) | group portrait (324) | veduta (322) | interior view (194) | three-quarter portait (152)

named after: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (2) | spring (1) | cathedral (1) | Lake Ladoga (1) | Andrew (1) | Charles XII of Sweden (1) | Zierikzee (1) | Alzano Lombardo (1) | Teutoburg Forest (1) | Henry Cabot Lodge (1) | Saint Lucy (1) | Ham (1) | tarantella (1) | Peace of Münster (1) | Samuel Foote (1) | Tannhäuser (1) | Sineu (1) | The Blue Bird (1)

based on: Madonna and Child (69) | Greek mythology (54) | Metamorphoses (50) | Penitent Magdalene (35) | death of Cleopatra (25) | Susanna and the Elders (24) | Old Testament (21) | Rape of Europa (20) | Winter landscape with skaters and bird trap (18) | Saint George and the Dragon (18) | Book of Genesis (16) | New Testament (16) | Adoration of the shepherds (16) | flight into Egypt (14) | the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (14) | Bride of Christ (12) | Jerusalem Delivered (12) | Judgement of Paris (12)

artist: anonymous (6,839) | Vincent van Gogh (871) | Claude Monet (676) | Rembrandt (674) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (649) | Eliseu Visconti (593) | Paul Cézanne (566) | Peter Paul Rubens (526) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (525) | George Catlin (518) | Camille Pissarro (456) | David Teniers the Younger (442) | Francisco Goya (365) | Jacob van Ruisdael (359) | Jan Steen (337) | Anthony van Dyck (324) | Albert Bierstadt (322) | Johan Christian Dahl (316)

part of the series: Rouen Cathedral Series (27) | Haystacks (23) | Mont Sainte-Victoire (14) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (14) | Vues des ports de France (14) | Water Lilies (13) | Turkestan Series (13) | Jacob and his twelve sons (13) | Marie de' Medici cycle (10) | Waterloo Bridge series (8) | Astronomical Observations (8) | A Rake's Progress (7) | Cornelis Samuelsz van Esch, his wife Josina Jansdr de Carpentier, their three daughters and their two sons (7) | Sunflowers (6) | L'Arlésienne (6) | The Judgment of Paris (6) | Marriage à-la-mode (6) | The Card Players (6)

depicts: woman (7,930) | man (7,391) | tree (4,167) | sky (1,723) | horse (1,543) | house (1,398) | cloud (1,368) | Virgin Mary (1,329) | landscape (1,165) | boat (1,092) | sitting (1,058) | boy (1,018) | child (947) | mountain (941) | Child Jesus (893) | dog (882) | flower (797) | nudity (788)

collection: private collection (4,853) | Rijksmuseum (4,559) | Nationalmuseum (3,175) | Statens Museum for Kunst (2,864) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2,837) | Museo del Prado (2,724) | Hermitage Museum (2,596) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (2,535) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (2,428) | National Museum in Warsaw (2,120) | Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection (2,077) | National Gallery of Art (2,026) | National Portrait Gallery (1,742) | Museum of Fine Arts (1,713) | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (1,628) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (1,627) | Yale Center for British Art (1,454) | Instituut Collectie Nederland (1,291)

location: Rijksmuseum (4,404) | Statens Museum for Kunst (2,851) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2,814) | Museo del Prado (2,603) | Hermitage Museum (2,545) | Nationalmuseum (2,192) | National Gallery of Art (2,022) | National Portrait Gallery (1,732) | Museum of Fine Arts (1,687) | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (1,622) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (1,622) | Yale Center for British Art (1,453) | Neue Pinakothek (1,416) | private collection (1,309) | museum's storage space (1,205) | Slovak National Gallery (1,070) | Ateneum (1,036) | depot RCE (1,009)

part of: Collection of Self-Portraits in the Uffizi Gallery (72) | Pan Poeticon Batavum (69) | Ciudad Rodrigo altarpiece (25) | Gift of 24 ethnographic paintings of Brazil and Africa (24) | The Slav Epic (20) | Punishment of a Hunter (14) | Sèrie L'Espoli de El Greco (13) | Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (12) | Haystacks (10) | Poplar (10) | works by Biagio Bellotti (10) | Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos (10) | Nine scenes from Heliodorus' Aethiopica (9) | Ghent Altarpiece (8) | Black Paintings (8) | Marie de' Medici cycle (7) | The Seven Works of Mercy (7) | The Peaceable Kingdom (7)

country of origin: United States of America (5,933) | Brazil (429) | Spain (350) | Italy (290) | France (284) | Denmark (64) | Netherlands (47) | Russian Empire (42) | Germany (32) | Portugal (25) | United Kingdom (10) | Russia (8) | Kingdom of Italy (8) | Belgium (7) | Finland (6) | Switzerland (6) | England (4) | Poland (3)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (297) | Europeana 280 (173) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (143) | J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature (142) | Corot 1796-1875 (140) | Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. Jubilee Exhibition 1988 (112) | Velázquez (109) | Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (77) | Exposition des primitifs français (75) | Art 3. Works from the collection 1814-1950 (74) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (73) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (60) | Dutch masters from the Hermitage (57) | Mirabilis (49) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (46) | Corps et Ombres (38) | Monet & Architecture (37) | De Corot à l'art moderne. Souvenirs et variations (36)

main subject: Madonna and Child (665) | Adoration of the Magi (216) | crucifixion of Jesus (194) | Annunciation (184) | Adoration of the shepherds (155) | Holy Family (154) | woman (117) | Penitent Magdalene (104) | Sacra Conversazione (99) | lamentation of Christ (98) | rest on the flight into Egypt (93) | Nativity of Jesus (90) | Descent from the Cross (84) | man (77) | Judith and Holofernes (77) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (72) | nude (69) | Ecce Homo (67)

donated by: heir (30) | Josep Sala i Ardiz (25) | anonymous (5) | Percy H. Sloan (4) | Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (4) | Michael Friedsam (4) | Juan Luna (3) | Charles Lang Freer (3) | Enric Serra Auqué (3) | Anne R. Fischer (3) | J. P. Morgan (2) | Louisine Havemeyer (2) | Works Progress Administration (2) | Kitty Lange Kielland (2) | Benjamin Altman (2) | John J. Emery (2) | William Rosenwald (2) | Carl S. Dentzel (2)

location of final assembly: Paris (255) | Nuenen (189) | Arles (175) | Brazil (170) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (141) | Auvers-sur-Oise (79) | United States of America (70) | France (66) | Rio de Janeiro (38) | Spain (33) | The Hague (26) | Italy (25) | Rome (24) | Minas Gerais (24) | Antwerp (16) | Keuruu (13) | Florence (11) | Bahia (11)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (40) | Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (23) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (17) | American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (15) | German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 (13) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (6) | Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (6) | The Complete Van Gogh with Pictures (5) | J.-B. de la Faille: L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, catalogue raisonné (4) | The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (4) | The New Complete Van Gogh: Fully revised and enlarged edition of the Catalogue raisonné (3) | The Dutch Period (1880-1885) in Vincent van Gogh's Work (1853-1890) (3) | Metropolitan Museum Journal (2) | The works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (revised, augmented and annotated edition) (2) | Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (2) | Van Gogh: Face to Face. The Portraits (2) | The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh (2)

fabrication method: oil painting (370) | chiaroscuro (68) | grisaille (21) | fresco painting (5) | painting on canvas (3) | canvas (2) | watercolor (1) | collage art (1) | encaustic painting (1) | marouflage (1) | monochrome painting (1) | camaieu technique (1) | gilding (1) | panel (1) | wash (1)

time period: Baroque (131) | Renaissance (94) | 17th century (2) | Early Renaissance (2) | 19th century (1) | Impressionism (1) | Dutch Golden Age painting (1)