About this artwork
With its half-length format and small size, this jewel-like painting was designed to foster private reflection on the biblical narrative and compassion for its characters. Such religious subjects—here, the adoration of the infant Jesus—adorned domestic spaces in the early 16th century, fueled by a rapid increase in private collecting. Although Cornelis Engebrechtsz. worked in the northern Netherlandish city of Leiden, he and his assistants likely made this work for sale in the more cosmopolitan southern provinces of the Spanish Netherlands, then the center of the emerging art market. Its design was copied in several paintings and in manuscript illuminations made in Bruges, a testament to the broad circulation of Engebrechtsz.’s works.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 207
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Matthias Gerung
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Title
- The Dream of Paris
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1495–1550
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Medium
- Oil on panel
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed: PARIS / TRAM (on paper attached to central tree trunk),1 O.W. / 1536 / PG (or GP) in ligature (on central tree trunk)
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Dimensions
- 49.1 × 32.8 cm (19 5/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Painted Surface: 48.4 × 32 cm (19 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
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Reference Number
- 1940.935
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/58702/manifest.json
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