Color Olivi, not dated

The Invention of Oil Painting

Series titleNew Inventions of Modern Times

ArtistUnbekannt

Artistnach Jan van der Straet, Brugge 1523–1605 Firenze

PublisherPhilipp Galle, Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerpen

MediumEngraving

Sheet dimensions20,6 × 27,1 cm

Status

not on display

About the workThe painter’s studio is a hive of activity and, when observed closely, reveals different types of work as well as a workshop hierarchy. While the master is completing a history painting, an apprentice is practising drawing. As the caption reveals, the actual subject of the picture is the use of oil paint as a medium, the invention of which was long attributed to the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. The print belongs to a series presenting the most significant achievements of the modern era, such as gunpowder, the printing press and the discovery of America.

Accession Acquired 1927 from the Kunstgewerbemuseum

Provenance[...]; 1927/28 übernommen vom "Central-Gewerbe-Verein für die Rheinlande, Westfalen und benachbarte Gebiete" als Träger des Kunstgewerbemuseums

Inventory numberK 1928-3123

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