The Brazen Serpent (van Dyck)

The Brazen Serpent is a 1618-1620 oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its shows a scene from the Old Testament (Numbers 21: 6–9).

It was first recorded in 1764, when it was chosen from Juan Kelly's collection in Madrid for Charles III of Spain by Anton Raphael Mengs.[1].

Scientific examination of the work has shown that he combined wet and dry medium for the work[2]

References

"Catalogue entry".
(in Spanish) Alba, L., Jover, M., Gayo, M. D.: "Introducción a los estudios técnicos: la práctica artística del joven Van Dyck", El joven Van Dyck, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2012

Anthony van Dyck
List of paintings
Religious subjects	Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–1619) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1618) The Brazen Serpent (c. 1618–1620) The Apostle Matthew (c. 1618–1620) The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) Bristol Madrid Minneapolis Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (c. 1619–20) Christ Crowned with Thorns (1619–20) Samson and Delilah 1620 1630 Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) The Coronation of Saint Rosalia (1629) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–30) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Crucifixion (1630) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1615 1618 1619 1629 1629–30 1634 1635 1640
Saint Rosalia series (1624–1625)	Houston London Madrid New York Ponce Palermo (studio work) Munich (autograph or studio)
Mythological subjects	Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Diana and a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr (1622–1627) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–1632) Cupid and Psyche (1638–1640)
Portraits	Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633) At the Hunt (c.1635) Triple Portrait (1635 or 1636) Equestrian (1637–38) Henrietta Maria Triple Portrait (1638) As St Catherine (1639) Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile (c. 1622) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) (1634–5) Olivia Boteler Porter (1630s) Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
Self-portraits	1613–14 1632–33 1635 (with Endymion Porter) 1640
Related	Van Dyke beard

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