Chest
16th century
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1895
- Gallery location
- Not on display
Artwork Details
Purchased, 1895
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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
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal
Pierre TURIN (designer)
International Exposition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Paul-Marcel DAMMANN (designer)
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
TUMBLER
PLATE
Swansea (manufacturer)
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Eldorado pulcheria, ewer
AURELIANO TOSO DECORATIVE GLASSWORKS, Murano (manufacturer); Dino MARTENS (designer)
EYEGLASS
VASES & MOUNTS
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
The victory of faith
St George HARE
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, medal and box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Kubus, stacking storage containers
Wilhelm WAGENFELD (designer); Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke A.G., Weisswasser (manufacturer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
DECANTER JUG
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
VASE