The wine for the feast of St. Martin
|
| The wine for the feast of St. Martin |
|---|
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder , 1565/68 |
| Tempera on canvas |
| 148 × 270.5 cm |
| Museo del Prado , Madrid |
The wine for the feast of St. Martin is an oil painting by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder . It was created in 1565 or 1568 in tempera paints on a canvas measuring 148 by 270.5 centimeters, making it the tallest and by far the widest of the artist's surviving paintings . It shows celebrations for St. Martin's Day , where traditionally the first wine of the season was served.
The picture was considered lost for a long time until a private collector took it to Madrid's Prado for restoration in the spring of 2010 . Investigations have shown that it is a work by Bruegel. The museum then acquired the painting.
A fragment in the Vienna Art History Museum that reproduces a section of the painting was temporarily held to be the original. This is no longer ascribed to Bruegel today ; it is probably the remains of a copy of Bruegel's son Pieter Brueghel the Younger .
gallery
Signature in the lower left corner
Fragment in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Web links
- The Wine of Saint Martin's Day. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Technical and documentary report Description on the Prado website (English / Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Kimmelman: When Overlooked Art Turns Celebrity . In: New York Times . December 14, 2010, p. C1 ( article online [accessed September 1, 2011]).
- ^ The Wine of Saint Martin's Day. Pieter Bruegel the Elder III. The identification of the painting. Museo del Prado, accessed October 4, 2011 .
- ↑ Feast of St. Martin. (No longer available online.) Kunsthistorisches Museum , archived from the original on May 28, 2012 ; Retrieved September 1, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Old peasant woman | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, 1564) | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, around 1556) | The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow | The country wedding | The peasant dance | The conversion of Paul | The Bethlehemite Child Murder | The fall of the blind | Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Galilee | Christ and the adulteress | The three soldiers | The gloomy day | The magpie on the gallows | River landscape with a sower | The yawn (?) | Great Tower of Babel | The port of Naples | The return of the flock | The haymaking | The wedding dance | The hunters in the snow | The battle between carnival and fasting | The children's games | Little Tower of Babel | The grain harvest | Christ Carrying the Cross | The cripples | Landscape with the Flight into Egypt | Landscape with the fall of Icarus (?) | Seascape with a burning city (?) | The misanthrope | The nest ejector | The Dutch proverbs | The sermon of John the Baptist | The land of milk and honey | Saul's suicide | The fall of the rebelling angels | Death of the virgin | The great Grete | The triumph of death | The Bethlehem Census | The wine for the feast of St. Martin | Winter landscape with ice skaters and bird trap | Two monkeys | Twelve Proverbs (?)
(?) Attribution controversial | Formerly attributed to Bruegel