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The Artist's Father
Standing next to a storm-beaten coast, this man in his black gown recalls different images of death. As in Ingmar Bergman’s film The Seventh Seal. The painting is, however, a portrait of the artist’s father, Lucas von Breda. An average adjuster, his job was to investigate accidents at sea. This explains the special background and the depiction of the model as an emissary of fate who appears when v…
Creator
Subject
- Lukas von Breda d.ä.
Type of item
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
- Visual arts
Creator
Subject
- Lukas von Breda d.ä.
Type of item
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
- Visual arts
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1797
- 1797
Provenance
- Transferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum
Identifier
- NM 941
- 17944
Extent
- Mått 127 x 102 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Year
- 1797
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:02.004Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:31.816Z