Pushkin Museum purchased the painting “Adoration of the Magi” by the famous Flemish painter Otto van Ven, teacher of Peter Paul Rubens. writes about this RBC said the museum’s press service.
Now you can see the artist’s works in the 10th hall of the Main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts (Pushkin Museum). After the re-exhibition, “The Adoration of the Magi” will be placed next to Rubens’ paintings. The painting was painted around 1600; At that time, Otto van Ven was popular and often painted works commissioned by monasteries, temples, and craft guilds.
Recently, the painting “Moonlit Night” by Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky was revealed. Wrote It was sold at auction in 1878 for 92 million rubles. The new owners also found the works “Patriarch Filaret” by Ilya Repin (29.5 million rubles) and “Himalayas” by Nicholas Roerich (12 million rubles). Also sold at the auction were Vasily Vereshchagin’s “Church of Athanasius of Alexandria on Belaya Sluda” (9.5 million rubles) and the sculpture “Centaur Pointing” by sculptor Ernst Neizvestny.
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