Chest
16th century
Medium
Carved
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1895
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
COAL SCUTTLE
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal and box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
SPURS
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Ecstasy
André MASSON
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris. Christofle and Baccarat Pavilion, postcard
FRANCE
MEASURE WITH LID
RING
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
BOWL & COVER
Swansea (manufacturer)
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Windsor bench
(UNITED STATES) (manufacturer)
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Bonds Emission poster for the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry
Henri RAPIN
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
JAR