Core Record |
| Title |
A Mountain Landscape with the Journey to Emmaus |
| Alternative Title |
A mountain landscape with figures |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Bril, Paul (Flemish landscapist and fresco painter, 1554-1626, active in Rome) |
| Date |
1602 (dated) |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
The rocky mountainous scene is pierced by a precipitous path that wends its way, from the left, across a bridge and then behind rocks to reappear at centre right before descending to the foreground. Above are crags, behind a building with a tall square tower standing out against the sky. There are figures at various points on the path with pack animals and sheep. A group of three men in right foreground are the resurrected Christ and the two disciples who met Him on the road to Emmaus. The subject is from Luke 24.13-25. |
| Current Accession Number |
10 |
| Former Accession Number |
17 (1855) |
| Inscription |
front lr 'PAV. BRiLL./ 1602' |
| Subject |
religion (Christ's journey to Emmaus); landscape; figure |
| Measurements |
28.6 x 39.5 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on metal (copper) |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
European Art 1520-1600, Manchester, 1965, cat. no. 47. |
| Publications |
McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 4, no. 17; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, pp. 32-33, no. 10, II, p. 14; Lowenthal, A. W., Netherlandish Mannerism in British Collections, Entwistle Gallery, London, 1990, p. 22, fig. 15; Renger, K. and C. Denk, Flaemische Malerei des Barock in der Alten Pinakothek, Munich, 2002, p. 33, no. 4824, s.v. Kopien; Die Flaemische Landschaft, Essen and Vienna, 2003, p. 132, fig. 1 (entry by K. Ertz). |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Robert Wenley |
