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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:
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Style:
half length portraits
Style:
male portraits
Style:
high Renaissance
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
Reference details:
30
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Previous catalogues
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National Gallery Catalogues: The Early Netherlandish School
Reference details:
39-40
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Previous catalogues
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User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
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173
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Key bibliography
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User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings
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161-21
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National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
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26
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The National Gallery: 1938-1954
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30
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The National Gallery: January 1971 - December 1972
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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. […]
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227
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The Early Flemish Painters: Notices of Their Lives and Works
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266 n. 2
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De Sint-Salvatorskatedraal te Brugge: Geschiedenisen Architektuur
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65-75
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Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
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153
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Von Eyck bis Bruegel
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180
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Die altniederländische Malerei
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6.9
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The National Gallery, London
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1.76-80
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Histoire de l'ancien couvent des ermites de Saint Augustin
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Histoire de la peinture flamande depuis ses débuts jusqu'en 1864
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122
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Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: Foreign Schools
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258
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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
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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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Gerard David
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col. 215
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Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
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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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