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Title

Adoration of the Magi

Artist

Jan Erasmus Quellinus

Physical Description

This unfinished painted study depicts a crowd of figures gathered around three richly dressed men and a woman and child, who appear on a flight of stairs near the entrance to a large building decorated with classical columns and pilasters. An elderly bald man wearing a red cloak trimmed with ermine kneels with his head bowed at the top of the stairs before a kneeling woman who holds an infant in her right arm. Another man wearing a turban decorated with a large feather stands behind the kneeling man and holds a gold censer hanging from a chain in his left hand. A third richly dressed man stands at the bottom of the stairs with his back turned toward the viewer. A number of other figures crowd around this central group from the sides. A large ox sits in the right foreground with a donkey standing behind it.

Artist Life Dates

1634-1715

Century

17th - 18th century

Object Creation Date

1634-1715

Accession Number

1963/2.44

Medium and Support

oil on paper mounted on canvas

relevance

rank 16.61735

Primary Keywords

christianity

donkeys

kings (people)

magi

oil sketches

oxen

turbans