
The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel at the Well
Old Master Paintings
Alkotó | |
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Kultúra | Spanish |
Készítés ideje | end of the 15th century |
Tárgytípus | painting |
Anyag, technika | tempera and gold on walnut |
Méret | 82 × 90 cm |
Szignó | Signed below, on the scroll: p(edr)o s(ánch)es pintor |
Leltári szám | 3712 |
Gyűjtemény | Old Master Paintings |
Kiállítva | Museum of Fine Arts, First Floor, European Art 1250-1600, Gallery XII |
The solemn, stifled grief of mourning permeates this scene, which depicts the final moments before Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus seal the dead body of Christ inside the stone sarcophagus. This harmonious and finely balanced composition is unusual in that the artist – quite unconventionally for his day – has signed his name, on the banderole visible in the foreground: po ses pintor.
The winding roads and the landscape details in the background, the symmetrical arrangement of the figures and the intricate working of the clothes all indicate that Pedro Sánchez I was a follower of the early Flemish tradition of painting. Nevertheless, his work features one element that is Spanish through and through: the assortment of vessels placed before the sarcophagus, all different shapes and ma- terials, is an early example of the bodegón, a typically Spanish category of the still life.
Pigler, Andor, Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister, 1-2. Museum der Bildenden Künste, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest. 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1967, p. 613-614, 146.
Szigethi, Ágnes – Nyerges, Éva – Ruzsa, György – Barkóczi, István – Tátrai, Vilmos, Tátrai, Vilmos (ed.), Old Masters’ Gallery; A Summary Catalogue of Italian, French, Spanish and Greek Paintings: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 1, Budapest, 1991, p. 169.
Nyerges, Éva, Spanish Paintings, A Szépművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményei/The Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2008, p. 52-53, no. 19.
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