The Painting: One of the highlights of The Met’s early Netherlandish painting collection is the wide range and depth of its portraiture, featuring notable examples of elderly men by artists such as Hans Memling (wood, painted surface: 49.3 x 31.5 cm (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
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Fragment Italian 17th century Piece Japan 18th–19th century Fragment Belgian, Brussels
Lacking the traditions of commercial production and established markets that supported the continued growth and vitality of the Netherlandish and French industries, manufactories like the Medici, Mortlake, and Barberini workshops were dependent on the fortune of their founding patrons.
Brussels remained the principal center of high-quality production in the Netherlands
Signature: Signed on dial: Achenbach & Schmidt à NeuwiedMarquetry signed on front of pendulum case: REUSCHInscription: Dials inscribed: PHILADELPHIA, MEXICO, PEKING, HISPAHAN, CAS-BON-SPEI, CAIRO, ROM, LISABON, LONDEN, ST
Michel-Paul-Joseph Dewez, the goldsmith of Duke Charles Alexander of Lorraine, from Brussels
Recent studies of Van Gogh’s canvas supports, undertaken by the Thread Count Automation Project in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, have used thread count and weave pattern to identify canvases cut from the same bolt
Jansen, and A. de Tagle, Brussels, 2013, pp. 142–81.
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Istanbul, 1904–Istanbul, 1982 Bernheim-Jeune, Gaston and Jossé (called Joseph)Brussels
Perse Entre Rome et la Chine (224-642).� Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels
Inscription: in pen and black ink on column left of center, „A / L’ETERNELLE / MEMOIRE / DE / LOUIS AUGUSTE / LE / BIENFAISANT;“ in pen and black ink on covered vase atop column on the right, „BALZAMON;“ in pen and black ink along lower margin, “ILS ÊTANCHENT LE SANG CONSACRÉ A LA DÉFENSE DE LA PATRIE
Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels
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Dionysus Luigi Valadier 1783 Fragment Italian 17th century Fragment Belgian, Brussels
Karl Anton Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen(inv. no. 5236); Baron Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel (until 1977); his sale, Sotheby’s, London(22 June 1978, lot 267); [ Michael Ward, New York (sold 1996)]
The figures and acanthus border can be related to an ivory reliquary in Brussels
