Netherlandish 16th Century

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Against a landscape, a pale-skinned man walking hunched over as he carries a large bundle like pillows wrapped in a blanket on his back nearly fills this vertical painting. Close to us, the man walks to our right with his head down and his eyes closed or downcast under straight, furrowed brows. He has a wide, prominent nose, a brown beard, and close-cropped hair. With muscled forearms arms raised overhead, he clutches the forest-green cloth tied around the bundle, which has cloth with dark green stripes against cream white. The man wears a red, waist-length tunic over an ankle-length, bright white garment, which splits up the side to show his muscular legs and bare feet. He strides across a moss-green rock. On the far side of the rock on which he stands, to our left, a sand-brown path curves away from us to the wide, arched opening of a building. The structure has gray walls, possibly stone, with goldenrod-yellow paneling around the second story, and a red roof. At the arched opening, a couple dozen people, tiny in scale, gather around a person who stands and gestures with arm extended over a second person lying on a cloth. The four corners of the cloth are suspended by four ropes, barely visible, where the cloth had been lowered to the ground from above, presumably from the four people on the roof. The people in the crowd wear robes in mustard yellow, navy blue, plum purple, dark red, and white. Another building and a stone tower rise beyond the structure. To our right, the land dips down to the horizon line, which comes about a quarter of the way up the painting. People walk along the distant path that passes in front of a house at the foot of a steel-blue, rocky outcropping. A leafy tree grows where the road bends out of sight, and bands of white clouds stretch across the pale, muted turquoise sky.
Netherlandish 16th Century, The Healing of the Paralytic, c. 1560/1590, oil on panel, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.7.7

The Healing of the Paralytic

Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1560/1590 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1943.7.7

Netherlandish 16th Century, Coconut Cup with Silver Gilt Mounts, c. 1540, coconut mounted in gilded silver, Gift of Funds from Marina French and Jacqueline B. Mars in honor of Eric L. Motley, 2024.125.1

Coconut Cup with Silver Gilt Mounts

Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1540 · coconut mounted in gilded silver ·  Accession ID  2024.125.1

Netherlandish 16th Century, A Warrior, with a Garlanded Mask below, c. 1530s, lead, Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin, 1995.27.6

A Warrior, with a Garlanded Mask below

Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1530s · lead ·  Accession ID  1995.27.6

Netherlandish 16th Century, Adrian VI (Adrian Dedal, 1459-1523), Pope 1522, 1522/1523, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.1225

Adrian VI (Adrian Dedal, 1459-1523), Pope 1522

Netherlandish 16th Century · 1522/1523 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.1225

This horizontal tapestry is divided into three vertical sections by architectural columns and arches. The center column is a little wider than those to either side, but all three sections are packed with people, all with ivory-white skin. In the center column, a crowned Jesus is seated on a throne at the top center. His elaborately patterned robe falls in folds down past his feet. He hovers above a landscape view, which is flanked in the foreground by groups of men and women. About a dozen people are clustered on each side, many of them looking up at Jesus, and most of them wearing religious garments that range from monks and nuns to cardinals and bishops. Two crowned men kneel to our right in the center panel, their hands pressed together in prayer. Each column on either side of the central panel is divided so there is a smaller vignette above taller vignettes below. Large groups of people gather in each scene. Much of the tapestry’s surface is now brown, but it is punctuated throughout with patches of rust red, sky blue, and pale yellow.
Netherlandish 16th Century, The Triumph of Christ ("The Mazarin Tapestry"), c. 1500, tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-gilt- and silver-wrapped silk weft, Widener Collection, 1942.9.446

The Triumph of Christ ("The Mazarin Tapestry")

Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1500 · tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-gilt- and silver-wrapped silk weft ·  Accession ID  1942.9.446

Netherlandish 16th Century, Castle by a River, published in or before 1676, etching retouched with engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.28.34

Castle by a River

Netherlandish 16th Century · published in or before 1676 · etching retouched with engraving ·  Accession ID  1972.28.34

Netherlandish 16th Century, Village with Pond, published in or before 1676, etching retouched with engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.28.75

Village with Pond

Netherlandish 16th Century · published in or before 1676 · etching retouched with engraving ·  Accession ID  1972.28.75

Netherlandish 16th Century, Jan van den Wouwer, c. 1600, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.14.43

Jan van den Wouwer

Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1600 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1950.14.43

Netherlandish 16th Century, Hendrick Goltzius, The Circumcision, 1594, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1994.21.1

The Circumcision

Netherlandish 16th Century, Hendrick Goltzius · 1594 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.21.1

Hendrick Goltzius, Netherlandish 16th Century, The Visitation, 1593, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1994.21.2

The Visitation

Hendrick Goltzius, Netherlandish 16th Century · 1593 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.21.2