Artist: David The Younger Teniers
Date: 1645
Size: 55 x 76 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Wood
Flemish painters had a long tradition of relegating religious narratives to the background of scenes drawn from contemporary life. Here, the viewer can just glimpse Saint Peter’s liberation from captivity by an angel, while in the foreground, soldiers play dice and a heap of armor and earthenware conveys Teniers’s skillful illusionism. In this way, the painting enacts the worldly distractions that can cause believers to lose sight of higher things. This painting was seized by the Nazis from Baron Karl Neuman (Charles Neuman de Végvár) in Paris and restituted to him by 1947.
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