This painting with a monkey seated astride a white horse has a rather mysterious subject. What we do know is that it is one half of a diptych. The other panel, in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, depicts a similar brick archway, beneath which a young woman is seen holding a flower, the symbol of true love. The panel in Rotterdam might therefore symbolise man’s conflicting relationship to love: the faithfulness of the horse and the lechery of the monkey.
Specifications
| Title | Two Horses in a Landscape |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Oil on panel |
| Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width 16 cm Height 43 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Painter:
Hans Memling
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| Accession number | 2470 (OK) |
| Credits | Acquired with the collection of D.G. Van Beuningen, 1958 |
| Department | Old Masters |
| Acquisition date | 1958 |
| Creation date | in circa 1490 |
| Collector | Collector / D.G. van Beuningen |
| Internal exhibitions |
Van Eyck tot Bruegel (1994) BABEL - Oude meesters terug uit Japan / Old Masters Back from Japan (2018) |
| External exhibitions |
Nederlandsche Kunst van de XVde en XVIde eeuw (1945) Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ and Great 16th Century Masters (2017) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
| Geographical origin | Germany > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Hans Memling
Seligenstadt circa 1435 - Brugge 1494
Hams Memling was most probably a pupil of Rogier van der Weyden. He spent the greater part of his life in Bruges. Since he was, in 1465, one of the greatest tax...
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