Trivia question

[brianvds]

Here's a detail from a fairly well known painting:

I'm curious to see whether anyone will recognize the painting - I'm sure StLukes will, but any other takers?

 

[Hermes2020]

All I can guess is that it is a Flemish or Dutch artist, perhaps of the 17th Century?

 

[Hermes2020]

New guess: Hieronymus Bosch, who was 16th Century.

 

[brianvds]

New guess: Hieronymus Bosch, who was 16th Century.

Not Bosch, but you're on exactly the right track here.

 

[Hermes2020]

Let's get some ideas from other members. I have no other guesses right now.

 

[brianvds]

Let's get some ideas from other members. I have no other guesses right now.

I'll post the solution in a day or two, depending on what, if any, input we get.

 

[Artyczar]

Van Eyck or Bruegal?

 

[Artyczar]

I retract my Van Eyck guess. I was confusing him with someone else. DUH!

 

[Artyczar]

I was thinking of Jan van Amstel.

 

[Hermes2020]

Bruegel sounds like a good suggestion to me.

 

[Artyczar]

Ha! That was a shot in the dark! I was going to stick with my last suggestion, van Amstel.

 

[Hermes2020]

You know more than me, so perhaps van Amstel is the one. All I know is it probably wasn't Jackson Pollock.

 

[brianvds]

Bruegel it is. But which painting? Hint: it has zilch to do with spiders; just one of those little details he was so fond of putting into his paintings.

 

[Artyczar]

I have no idea which painting. I can't believe I got the style right!!!

 

[Hermes2020]

Same here.

 

[brianvds]

And here's the grand reveal:

Pieter Bruegel - Procession to Calvary. Oil on oak, 124 x 170 cm.

At this scale, one can hardly see the little dot which is the spider. As I noted in another thread, I have been following a bot on X that posts high-res details from some of Bruegel's paintings, and I never realized just how packed with little details they are until these posts allowed me to zoom right in.

 

[Artyczar]

Wow! Amazing.

 

[brianvds]

Wow! Amazing.

And more details from a more recent Bruegelbot posting:

On a distant gallows, a corpse is cheerily swinging in the breeze:

while some distance away, a pack of dogs is frolicking about: