![]() The ground, imprimatura, undermodelling and paint layers are all typical of the techniques used by masters in seventeenth-century Flanders. ![]() Hypotheses about the identity of the painter were also put forward. In the course of the study it became clear that the complex, multi-figured composition depicts a scene from the life of King Solomon, and it is now titled The Idolatry of Solomon, with the king worshipping the goddess Astarte. It attracted attention for its confident handling, which led experts to examine it meticulously. ![]() In 1927, a panel by an anonymous painter arrived from the Hermitage under the provisional title Scene from the Middle Ages. It is a harmoniously balanced composition in which the painter’s brush skilfully rendered the beauties of the world: the colourful feathers of the birds, the slightly roughened surface of the fruits and their juicy pulp. Ships in a Storm, probably by Hermanus Koekkoek, and Animals in a Stable by Wouter Verschuur.įlowers and Birds by an unknown Flemish master of the eighteenth or nineteenth century arrived in the collection from the State Hermitage Museum. 1650), which is a copy after David Teniers II (1610–90), was likewise in Faberge’s collection until 1918, as were A Landscape with Figures after Nicolaes Berchem, A Bouquet of Flowers by an unknown seventeenth-century Flemish artist, a type of still life traditionally known as a “blompot”, was in the collection of the famous jeweller, collector and antiques expert Agafon Karlovic Faberge (1886–1951) until 1918. Hunting Trophies by Jan Weenix (1642–1719 is a good example of the genre, in which the artist successfully combined his skill in realistically depicting dead game with his talent for decorative compositions. The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue became a template of research activity in the museum. In 1985 the Omsk museum organized an exhibition titled The Western European Still Life. A similar motif can be seen in Landscape with a Sandy Slope in the State Hermitage Museum. In his work he reflects his passion for the Italianate landscape while also staying close to the Dutch realistic tradition. One of the best paintings is Landscape with a Sandy Slope and a Traveller by the well-known Dutch painter Jan Wijnants (c. Other pictures from the collection are A Herd of Animals with a Sleeping Shepherd by Eugène Joseph Verboekhoven (1798-1881) and Landscape with Horsemen attributed to Guillam du Bois (1610-80). Seventeenth century working in the style of David Teniers the Younger, Head of a Woman, which arrived as a work by an unknown painter from the school of Rembrandt and is now attributed to Pieter de Grebber, and Still Life with Flowers and a Book by the Belgian painter Jean Baptiste Robie (1821-1910). Among the works that they acquired which are now in the museum in Omsk are The Card Players by an anonymous Flemish artist of the The couple were known in St Petersburg for their charitable works and art collecting. The works from the collection of Elena Georgiyevna (Helena) of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg, are of particular value. There is also a small showing of Delftware and Brussels lace. Nowadays the Dutch and Flemish collection numbers more than 80 items, including 43 paintings, 10 works of graphic art and one sculpture by Adriaan de Vries (1545-1626), Hercules, Deianeira and Nessus. Others arrived from some of the largest museums in Russia, such as the State Hermitage and the Russian Museum. Variety of former imperial and aristocratic residences, such as the Marble Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Oranienbaum and the Constantine Palace. Melekhin, our first director, played a key role in shaping the museum, and it is thanks to his efforts that the holdings of Dutch art were enriched with works from the State Hermitage Museum by Pieter de Grebber, Jan Weenix, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and others.Īrchival research showed that some of those works had previously belonged to such collectors as Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Konstantin Alexandrovich Gorchakov, Agafon Karlovich Faberge, Arkady Veniaminovich Rumanov and Prince Yusupov. The basis of the collection of the Museum of the Art and Industry College (a forerunner of the present museum) was formed by donations from the Moscow and Leningrad museum fund in 1924-28. It consists of both Russian and foreign art, and is housed in two buildings in the city center of Omsk. The Omsk Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel Museum holds the largest collection of art in Russia east of the Urals. Curator's Collection Dutch and Flemish Art of the Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries in the Collection of the OMSK M.A.
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