MANTLEPIECE
18th century
Medium
Carved
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949
Gallery location
17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
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
Eldorado pulcheria, ewer
AURELIANO TOSO DECORATIVE GLASSWORKS, Murano (manufacturer); Dino MARTENS (designer)
MEDALLION PORTRAIT
TAPPIT-HENS
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE
COAL SCUTTLE
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Pierre TURIN (designer)
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
International Exposition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, box
Paul-Marcel DAMMANN (designer)
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Robert BONFILS
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Charles LOUPOT
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
CANDLESTICK
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
JUG
MINTON (manufacturer)
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris. Christofle and Baccarat Pavilion, postcard
FRANCE
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS