Tag: Belgium

Portrait of a Man, Léal Souvenir (1432)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a Man (Léal Souvenir) 1432 Oil on oak, 33.3 x 18.9 cm National Gallery, London This small portrait is puzzling in many ways. We don‘t know who this man was or why he is holding…

Portrait of a Man (1433)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) 1433 Oil on oak, 26 x 19 cm National Gallery, London This man, his face impassive and his gaze intense, is almost certainly Jan van Eyck himself. No other portraits of…

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap (c.1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap c.1565 Oil on panel, 37 x 55.5 cm Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels Copy: Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap c.1601 Museo del Prado, Madrid…

Dulle Griet (1562)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1562 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Museum Mayer van den Bergh (Antwerp)

Established: 1904 Location: Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, 2000 Antwerpen Website: https://www.museummayervandenbergh.be/en Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Dulle Griet (1562) • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Twelve Proverbs (c.1558) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Venus Presenting Weapons to Aeneas (2nd half of 17th century) See also: • Antwerp (Belgium) | Museums