ID: 700009609 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009609	Record Type: Movable Work
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Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife (painting (visual work); Jan van Eyck (active 1422; died 1441); 1434; National Gallery (London, Greater London, England, United Ki...; NG186)

Note: This work is a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, but is not intended as a record of their wedding. His wife is not pregnant, as is often thought, but holding up her full-skirted dress in the contemporary fashion. Arnolfini was a member of a merchant family from Lucca living in Bruges. The couple are shown in a well-appointed interior. The identity of his wife is uncertain, although scholars have considered at least three possibilities.

Titles:

Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Arnolfini Portrait, The (C,U,English,U,U)

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1434

Creator Display:

Jan van Eyck (active 1422; died 1441) [preferred]

painter Eyck, Jan van (Netherlandish painter, ca.1390-1441) [500116209]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500125190] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: NG186

Display Materials: Oil on oak

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

	oak (wood) [300012264]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

Dimensions: 82.2 x 60 cm

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	double portrait [300254374]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits, group portraits) (AAT)

	Arnolfini, Giovanni di Nicolao (Italian merchant, ca. 1400 – after 1452) [500486545]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	full-length figures [300343592]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	marriage (social construct) [300055475]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, sociological concepts, social structure) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Signed; Dated and inscribed; ornate Latin signature translates as 'Jan van Eyck was here 1434'

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-)
Arnolfini Portrait, The	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) accessed 20 May 2019)
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971) 290 ff.

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-portrait-of-a-man-self-portrait

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art London [online] (2000-) accessed 20 May 2019
	..... Janson, History of Art (1971)