material used: oil paint / collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art

instance of: painting (2,835) | triptych (2) | pendant (2) | altarpiece (2) | reredos (1) | panel painting (1) | photograph (1) | diptych (1) | polyptych (1) | artwork copy (1) | study (1) | cycle of paintings (1) | forged painting (1)

commissioned by: Paul Cassirer (1) | Francesco Maria del Monte (1) | Catulle Mendès (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1)

owned by: Louisine Havemeyer (95) | Robert Lehman (82) | Michael Friedsam (72) | William T. Blodgett (60) | Benjamin Altman (50) | Jules Bache (44) | Henry Osborne Havemeyer (9) | Paul Durand-Ruel (5) | Albert von Oppenheim (5) | Helen Swift Neilson (5) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (4) | Eugène Secrétan (4) | Isaac Dudley Fletcher (4) | Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (3) | John Waterloo Wilson (3) | Léopold Goldschmidt (3) | Rodolphe Kann (3) | Gustave Courbet (2)

movement: Flemish Primitives (33) | rococo (16) | Impressionism (14) | Dutch Golden Age painting (13) | academic art (7) | Baroque (6) | neoclassicism (4) | Venetian school (4) | Baroque painting (4) | High Renaissance (4) | Orientalism (3) | mannerism (3) | Realism (3) | Romanticism (2) | Cubism (2) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2) | Naïve art (2) | German Expressionism (1)

genre: portrait (846) | landscape art (328) | religious art (276) | still life (82) | genre art (59) | self-portrait (30) | marine art (21) | nude (19) | Christian art (18) | mythological painting (13) | history painting (10) | cityscape (8) | animal painting (6) | floral painting (6) | family portrait (6) | miniature (5) | tronie (5) | allegory (4)

named after: cathedral (1)

based on: Denial of Peter (1) | Annunciation (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Venus and Adonis (1) | epithalamium (1) | Madonna at the Fountain (1) | Winter landscape with skaters and bird trap (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | Spanish-style bullfighting (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | The Bacchanal of the Andrians (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Venus with the Organ Player (1) | Watson and the Shark (1)

artist: anonymous (288) | Claude Monet (40) | John Singer Sargent (40) | Rembrandt (39) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (31) | Gustave Courbet (27) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (27) | Paul Cézanne (24) | Gilbert Stuart (23) | Édouard Manet (22) | Edgar Degas (22) | Pierre Bonnard (21) | John Frederick Kensett (21) | Vincent van Gogh (20) | Camille Pissarro (20) | Winslow Homer (19) | Elihu Vedder (17) | Peter Paul Rubens (15)

part of the series: Water Lilies (2) | Sunflowers (1) | Haystacks (1) | L'Arlésienne (1) | Rouen Cathedral Series (1) | Isle of the Dead (1) | Wheat Field with Cypresses (1) | Modern Rome (1) | Ancient Rome (1) | Mont Sainte-Victoire (1) | Copies by Vincent van Gogh (1) | Christ Healing the Blind (1) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (1) | The Card Players (1) | Two men contemplating the Moon (1) | St. Jerome (1) | Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1) | La Berceuse (1)

depicts: man (795) | woman (707) | tree (339) | boat (111) | flower (85) | horse (58) | house (53) | ship (51) | sky (47) | Virgin Mary (45) | cloud (37) | soldier (35) | vase (32) | book (30) | Child Jesus (28) | hat (25) | dress (22) | sitting (20)

location: New York City (22) | private collection (4) | National Gallery of Art (2) | Wawel Castle (1) | White House (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | Cervara Abbey (1) | The Cloisters (1) | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (1) | San Carlo al Corso (1) | Room 817 (1) | bell tower of San Miguel (1) | Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Gallery 632 (1)

part of: Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos (3) | Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456) (2) | Poplar (1) | Colonna Altarpiece (1) | Ancient Rome (1) | Ovid among the Scythians (1) | The Card Players (1) | The Peaceable Kingdom (1) | Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl (1) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1) | The Months of the Year (1) | Former Diptych, split and held in two museums (1) | Christ on the Sea of Galilee (1) | Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (1) | A Anunciação (1)

country of origin: United States of America (834) | France (12) | Italy (11) | Netherlands (6) | Spain (5) | Germany (3) | Belgium (2) | Greece (2) | England (1) | Denmark (1) | Switzerland (1) | Austria (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (22) | Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art (21) | Corot 1796-1875 (12) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Velázquez (5) | The Bache Collection (5) | Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (4) | The Michael Friedsam Collection (4) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (4) | Salon of 1879 (3) | Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800 (3) | Francis I and the art of the Netherlands (3) | Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Museum of Modern Art (2) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (2) | Musée de l'Orangerie (2) | Salon des Refusés (2)

main subject: Madonna and Child (43) | Annunciation (10) | George Washington (9) | crucifixion of Jesus (8) | lamentation of Christ (8) | Adoration of the shepherds (7) | Adoration of the Magi (6) | rest on the flight into Egypt (5) | woman (4) | Christ carrying the cross (4) | Judith and Holofernes (4) | Christianity (3) | transport (3) | Salvator Mundi (3) | Nativity of Jesus (3) | Baptism of Jesus (3) | Holy Family (3) | entombment of Christ (2)

donated by: Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (4) | Michael Friedsam (4) | J. P. Morgan (2) | Louisine Havemeyer (2) | Works Progress Administration (2) | Benjamin Altman (2) | William Rosenwald (2) | Edward W. C. Arnold (2) | Joseph Pulitzer (1) | William Kissam Vanderbilt I (1) | Robert Lehman (1) | George Blumenthal (1) | Helen Hay Whitney (1) | Henry Gurdon Marquand (1) | Jayne Wrightsman (1) | Adelaide Milton de Groot (1) | Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold (1) | Mary Knight Arnold (1)

location of final assembly: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (8) | Arles (7) | Paris (4) | Rome (3) | Nuenen (2) | Amsterdam (1) | Céret (1) | Cádiz (1) | Tahiti (1) | Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1) | Étretat (1) | Pontaubert (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (40) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (17) | 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) | Metropolitan Museum Journal (2) | J.-B. de la Faille: L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, catalogue raisonné (2) | The works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (revised, augmented and annotated edition) (2) | The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (2) | The Complete Van Gogh with Pictures (2) | The Dutch Period (1880-1885) in Vincent van Gogh's Work (1853-1890) (2) | Vincent van Gogh Drawings: Nuenen 1883-85 Volume 2 (2) | The Masterpieces of European Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920 (2) | American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815 (2) | Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume I and II (2) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 5, The Renaissance in the North (2) | The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Metropolitan Jewelry (2)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (2) | grisaille (2)