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

instance of: painting (2,812) | pendant (2) | panel painting (1) | triptych (1) | photograph (1) | diptych (1) | polyptych (1) | artwork copy (1) | study (1) | altarpiece (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 (94) | Robert Lehman (81) | Michael Friedsam (71) | William T. Blodgett (59) | Benjamin Altman (50) | Jules Bache (44) | Henry Osborne Havemeyer (8) | Helen Swift Neilson (5) | Jean-Baptiste Faure (4) | Paul Durand-Ruel (4) | Albert von Oppenheim (4) | Isaac Dudley Fletcher (4) | Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (3) | Eugène Secrétan (3) | John Waterloo Wilson (3) | Léopold Goldschmidt (3) | Rodolphe Kann (3) | Gustave Courbet (2)

movement: Flemish Primitives (29) | rococo (16) | Impressionism (14) | Dutch Golden Age painting (14) | 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 (838) | landscape art (325) | religious art (270) | still life (83) | genre art (58) | self-portrait (30) | marine art (20) | nude (17) | Christian art (17) | mythological painting (12) | 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) | Metamorphoses (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Venus and Adonis (1) | epithalamium (1) | Madonna at the Fountain (1) | Adoration of the shepherds (1) | Spanish-style bullfighting (1) | Paul (1) | Virginie (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Venus with the Organ Player (1) | Watson and the Shark (1) | The Good Samaritan (1) | Brawl between peasants playing dice (1) | Portrait of the painter Frans Francken the Elder (1)

artist: anonymous (281) | Claude Monet (40) | John Singer Sargent (40) | Rembrandt (38) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (31) | Gustave Courbet (27) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (27) | Paul Cézanne (23) | Gilbert Stuart (23) | Edgar Degas (22) | Pierre Bonnard (21) | Édouard Manet (21) | John Frederick Kensett (21) | Camille Pissarro (20) | Vincent van Gogh (19) | Winslow Homer (19) | Elihu Vedder (17) | Corneille de Lyon (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) | 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 (786) | woman (701) | tree (339) | boat (110) | flower (85) | horse (58) | house (53) | ship (50) | sky (46) | Virgin Mary (44) | cloud (36) | soldier (35) | vase (32) | book (30) | Child Jesus (28) | hat (25) | dress (21) | sitting (20)

collection: private collection (18) | Jules Bache (5) | National Gallery (3) | Benjamin Altman (3) | John Taylor Johnston (3) | Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (3) | Michael Friedsam (3) | William T. Blodgett (3) | Jack and Belle Linsky (3) | J. P. Morgan (2) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2) | Carl Wilhelm August Krüger (2) | Neustädter Marienkirche (2) | Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham (2) | William Rosenwald (2) | Edward W. C. Arnold (2) | Baron von Tinti (2) | The Jack and Belle Linsky Foundation (2)

part of: Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos (3) | Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456) (2) | Poplar (1) | The Lute Player series (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) | Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (1) | A Anunciação (1)

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

exhibition history: Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art (20) | Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (19) | Corot 1796-1875 (12) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Velázquez (5) | Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (5) | The Bache Collection (5) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (4) | Salon of 1879 (3) | The Michael Friedsam Collection (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) | George Washington (9) | crucifixion of Jesus (8) | lamentation of Christ (8) | Adoration of the shepherds (7) | Annunciation (6) | Adoration of the Magi (6) | woman (4) | Christ carrying the cross (4) | rest on the flight into Egypt (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 (3) | 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: Arles (7) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (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)