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Portrait of Joseph-Charles de Meulemeester in the Loggia of the Vatican
Also titled Portret van Joseph-Charles de Meulemeester in de Loggia van het Vaticaan
Joseph Ducq (Ledegem, 1762–1829)
1813
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 75.5 cm x width 57.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Gerhards Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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
The painters Ducq and De Meulemeester belonged to the Southern Netherlandish artists-in-training who were sent by the government to Rome to study Italian masterpieces. In a passage of the Vatican decorated by the renowned painter Raphael, De Meulemeester shows us his copy of the ceiling painting above him. His aim was to reproduce all of Raphael’s work. On the chair is his palette, watercolour box, and brush in a glass of water.
