The Brazen Serpent (van Dyck)

The Brazen Serpent is a 1618-1620 oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its shows a scene from the Old Testament (Numbers 21: 6–9).

It was first recorded in 1764, when it was chosen from 's collection in Madrid for Charles III of Spain by Anton Raphael Mengs.^[1]

Scientific examination of the work has shown that he combined wet and dry medium for the work^[2]

References[]

^ "Catalogue entry".
^ (in Spanish) Alba, L., Jover, M., Gayo, M. D.: "Introducción a los estudios técnicos: la práctica artística del joven Van Dyck", El joven Van Dyck, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2012

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List of paintings
Religious subjects	Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–1619) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1618) The Brazen Serpent (c. 1618–1620) The Apostle Matthew (c. 1618–1620) The Crowning with Thorns (1618–1620) The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) Bristol Madrid Minneapolis Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (c. 1619–1620) Samson and Delilah 1620 1630 Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) The Coronation of Saint Rosalia (1629) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–1630) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Crucifixion (1630) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1615 1618 1619 1629 1629–1630 1634 1635 1640
Saint Rosalia series (1624–1625)	Houston London Madrid New York Ponce Palermo (studio work) Munich (autograph or studio)
Mythological subjects	Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Diana and a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr (1622–1627) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–1632) Cupid and Psyche (1638–1640)
Portraits	Portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio (c. 1623) The Lomellini Family (c. 1625–1627) Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633) Charles I at the Hunt (c. 1635) Charles I in Three Positions (1635 or 1636) Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–1638) Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria (1638) Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine (1639) Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile (c. 1622) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) (1634–1635) Olivia Boteler Porter (1630s) Mary Villiers, Lady Herbert of Shurland (c. 1636) Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
Self-portraits	Vienna (1613–1614) New York (1620–1621) Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (1632–1633) Self-portrait with Sir Endymion Porter (1635) London (1640)
Related	Van Dyke beard