Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
Gauguin painted this imagined biblical encounter in Brittany. The women have heard a sermon about Jacob wrestling with an angel; the gallery acquired the painting in 1925.
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Scottish National Gallery
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
- Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
- Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
- Your Scottish National Gallery walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.
Image in the demo: Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556 - 1559, jointly purchased by National Galleries Scotland and the National Gallery, London. Titian, Source credit: Google Arts & Culture — ggFplMh4sgQ6og, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source image, public-domain notice; cropped for the demo. The other collection rows are general illustrations, not a record of a gallery visit.
What the Scottish National Gallery collection covers
The Scottish National Gallery, also known as the National, stands at The Mound in Edinburgh. It brings together Scottish and international art from 1300 to 1945. National
The collection connects Italian Renaissance painting with Dutch and Flemish art and French Impressionism. Gauguin's imagined biblical scene and Velázquez's kitchen painting offer two different ways to look beyond an everyday setting.
Its collection strengths include Scottish art from the Renaissance to 1945, Italian Renaissance painting, Dutch and Flemish painting, and French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
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Diana and Actaeon
Titian shows Actaeon interrupting Diana's secret bathing place. National Galleries Scotland and the National Gallery, London, purchased the painting jointly in 2009.
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An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
Velázquez painted this kitchen scene while still a teenager. Its eggs and domestic utensils show his attention to light and contrasting textures; the gallery acquired it in 1955.
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Check the photography rules first
National Galleries Scotland welcomes non-flash photography and video for personal use; commercial photography or filming needs permission in advance. Some artworks and exhibitions have copyright or lender restrictions and must not be photographed. Read its current visitor guidelines and check the artwork label before taking a photo. Scottish National Gallery photography policy
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