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The Calling of Saint Anthony
Also titled De roeping van Sint-Antonius
Aertgen Claesz van Leyden (Leiden, ca. –ca.)
c. 1530
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 132.5 cm x width 96.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This many-sided composition represents the moment when the wealthy Anthony, standing at right, answers the priest’s call during his sermon to give away all his worldly possessions. In the right background Anthony is distributing bread to the poor. The lifelike fly on the white cap of the woman at front is an illusionistic joke by the painter.
