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Fantasy landscape with St Charles Borromeo
Also titled Fantasielandschap met de heilige Carlo Borromeo
Henry Ferguson (The Hague, 1665–1730)
c. 1700 - c. 1720
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 130.5 cm x width 195.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H.B. van der Ven, The Hague
- 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
Ferguson, who was born in Holland but spent much of his life in France, specialised in painting sculpture and ruins. This elaborate fantasy is based on the French classicising landscape tradition, and includes the figure of St Charles Borromeo indicating an oversized antique sarcophagus which bears a relief of Christ’s nativity. It is clearly allegorical, but the exact meaning is obscure.
