- Title:
- An Augustinian Friar (?) Praying
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Early Netherlandish
- Brief description:
- A man seems to be kneeling in a doorway or a window frame, hands folded in prayer. We don't know his identity, but he seems to be an Augustinian friar. Members of the Augustinian Order, which was founded in the thirteenth century, took vows of poverty and lived a monastic life. In public they wore a black cowl over a white tunic, like the one we see here.This panel was clearly the right wing of a diptych or triptych (a painting in two or three parts, respectively), with the object of the friar's devotions, most likely the Virgin and Child, shown on his left. The landscape behind him is a mix of fact and fantasy: the towers of two Bruges churches have been deposited in rolling countryside, rather than in the middle of a city.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1863-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1863
- Date - latest:
- 1863
- Acquisition source:
- Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- clerical
- Associated concept:
- Augustinian Order
- Associated concept:
- Cistercian Order
- Credit line:
- Presented by Queen Victoria at the Prince Consort's wish, 1863
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/342/265/108/mid_N-0710-00-000027.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34.20
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 26.80
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on wood
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- oak
- Object name:
- Picture; Early Netherlandish
- Object production date:
- about 1515
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1515
- Date - latest:
- 1515
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1500-24
- Object production person:
- Gerard David
- Person's birth date:
- 1484
- Person's death date:
- 1523
- Object production place:
- Netherlands
- Object production place:
- Bruges
- Other number:
- NG710
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F67-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG710
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03SM-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2710
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- half length portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- high Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 30
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 39-40
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 173
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings
- Reference details:
- 161-21
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- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 26
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- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: 1938-1954
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- 30
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- The National Gallery: January 1971 - December 1972
- Reference details:
- 170
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- Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being and Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss. […]
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- 26-7
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- Being and Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss. […]
- Reference details:
- 227
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- User's reference:
- The Early Flemish Painters: Notices of Their Lives and Works
- Reference details:
- 266 n. 2
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- User's reference:
- De Sint-Salvatorskatedraal te Brugge: Geschiedenisen Architektuur
- Reference details:
- 65-75
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- User's reference:
- Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 153
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- Von Eyck bis Bruegel
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- 180
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- User's reference:
- Die altniederländische Malerei
- Reference details:
- 6.9
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- User's reference:
- The National Gallery, London
- Reference details:
- 1.76-80
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- User's reference:
- Histoire de l'ancien couvent des ermites de Saint Augustin
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- User's reference:
- Histoire de la peinture flamande depuis ses débuts jusqu'en 1864
- Reference details:
- 122
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- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: Foreign Schools
- Reference details:
- 258
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- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery, with Biographical Notices of the Deceased Painters: British and Modern Schools
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- 157
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- National Gallery: Abridged Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures
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- 84
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- National Gallery, Trafalgar Square: Catalogue
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- 86
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- Grundbuch der Hochfürstlich Oettingen-Wallersteinischen altdeutscher Gemaehlde: Erster Teil, gefertiget in den Jahren 1817 u. 1818
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- fol. 22
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- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Critical Remarks on their Merits
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- European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
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- 46-7
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- Historische stedenatlas van België, Brugge
- Reference details:
- 215
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- Bruges et ses environs
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- 110-2
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- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
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- 258
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- Northern Renaissance Drawings and Underdrawings: A Proposed Method of Study
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- Art and History
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- 297
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- Die Sammlung altdeutscher Gemälde in dem fürstlichen Schlosse zu Wallerstine
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- 318
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- Identification de deux "portraits" d'église dans la peinture brugeoise de la fin du Moyen Âge
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- 39
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- User's reference:
- Gerard David
- Reference details:
- col. 215
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- User's reference:
- Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
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- User's reference:
- The masters' and the forgers' secrets : x-ray authentication of paintings from early Netherlandish till modern /Roger Henri Marijnissen ; with the collaboration of Guido van de Voorde … [et al.].
- Reference details:
- Ill. (detail) (p. 222); ill. (x-ray detail) (p. [223])
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- reference
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