Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Liberation of Peter

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966 achterzijde
966 ingelijst
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966 voorzijde

Hendrick ter Brugghen
The Liberation of Peter

1624 Visible à Salle 9

Here, Ter Brugghen has painted the biblical story of St Peter’s liberation from prison. The angel is waking him and pointing upwards, as if to say that God has sent him. St Peter looks alarmed and folds his chained hands.

Ter Brugghen created a very powerful painting with strong contrasts between light and dark, and expressive facial expressions. He also showed the two figures very close up. Ter Brugghen had copied this style from the Italian painter Caravaggio, whose work he had seen in Rome.

Détails techniques
966 voorzijde

Hendrick ter Brugghen
The Liberation of Peter

1624 Visible à Salle 9

Acquired with the support of the Rembrandt Association, 1963
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Détails

Informations générales
Artiste Hendrick ter Brugghen (The Hague 1588 - 1629 Utrecht)
Titre The Liberation of Peter
Datation 1624
Nom de l'objet painting
Numéro d'inventaire 966
Visible à Salle 9
Détails des matériaux et techniques
Technique oil
Matériau canvas
Dimensions 104.5 x 86.5 cm
Inscriptions
Signed and dated upper left, by the shoulder of the angel: HTBrugghe[n] / [16]24
HTB in ligature

Origine

Adam Gottlob, Count Moltke, and his heirs, Copenhagen, Amalienborg, before 1756?–1931 (as Guido Reni); Alfred Andersen, Copenhagen, 1931-1954; H. Cramer Gallery, The Hague, 1963; purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Association, 1963