This drawing is a design for the painting of the same name that hangs in the chapel of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in St Michael's Church in Ghent. Although the painting is worked out more vertically and has tiles in the foreground, both representations correspond in the smallest details.
| Artist |
Joseph Paelinck
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VIAF
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| Title | Study for 'The Discovery of the Holy Cross' |
| Date | ca. 1812 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | monogram bottom right: J.P. |
| collector's mark on the reverse: Fr. Hannet : Gand 1888 (L.4152) | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | pencil drawings AAT |
| Inventory number | 1923-AT |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
Hannet-Van Risseghem (coll.) Brussels 1919 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1923-AT |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/12150/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11D411
legend of the True Cross
Iconclass
11H saints Iconclass 11HH female saints Iconclass 11HH(HELENA) empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great; possible attributes: model of church, (royal) crown, crown of thorns, cross, three nails Iconclass 11P3121 priest (Roman Catholic) Iconclass 31A233 kneeling figure Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA233 kneeling figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 49G2 patient, sick person Iconclass 49G23 healing of sick person Iconclass 73D82(CROSS) cross ~ instruments of the Passion Iconclass |
| School / Style | Neoclassical AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 114) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Tekeningen, pastels en aquarellen; Inventaris / Moniek Nagels. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1988 (p. 43) |
| Aanwinsten : Barok tot classicisme (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 09.03 - 09.04.1989). - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1989 (s.p., nr. 13 (ill.)) |
| Les peintres belges à Rome de 1700 à 1830 / Denis Coekelberghs, Philippe Roberts-Jones. - Rome : Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 1976 (p. 246-251) |
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