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Summary

Arent de Gelder: Baptism of Christ

Artist



Alternative names	Arent de Gelder
Description	Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	26 October 1645	29 August 1727 (buried)
Location of birth/death	Dordrecht	Dordrecht
Work period	from 1659 until 1727 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1659-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1727-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Dordrecht (1659–1660), Amsterdam circa 1661–1663), Dordrecht (circa 1663–1727)
Authority file	: Q19034 VIAF: 47035781 ISNI: 0000000066347403 ULAN: 500115629 LCCN: n95008610 WGA: g/gelder WorldCat

Title

Dutch:

De doop van Christus

Baptism of Christ

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

In the foreground of a hilly landscape, Christ is baptised by St. John, amid a circle of onlookers. The two figures are brilliantly lit by rays from the disk high above, against general darkness. (from the Fitzwilliam Museum catalogue, by H. Gerson and J.W. Goodison); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Depicted people

Date

1710

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 48.3 cm (19 in)

; width: 37.1 cm (14.6 in)

Collection

Fitzwilliam Museum

	Native name	The Fitzwilliam Museum
	Location	Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB United Kingdom
	Coordinates	52° 12′ 01″ N, 0° 07′ 10″ E
	Established	1848
	Website	www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
	Authority file	: Q1421440 VIAF: 159048724 ISNI: 000000012238658X ULAN: 500219279 LCCN: n81041657 NLA: 35175592 WorldCat

Current location

Cambridge

Accession number

633 (Fitzwilliam Museum)

Credit line

H. Gerson and J.W. Goodison

References

Source/Photographer

from the Fitzwilliam Museum catalogue, by H. Gerson and J.W. Goodison

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Licensing

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2007-11-15 11:45 Dr Fil 551×715× (45008 bytes) "The Baptism of Christ", by Dutch painter Aert De Gelder, 1710, in Fitzwilliam art museum, Cambridge, UK

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	11:03, 15 November 2011	551 × 715 (44 KB)	Sridhar1000