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Here, Ter Brugghen has painted the biblical story of St Peter’s liberation from prison. The angel is waking him and pointing upwards, as if to say that God has sent him. St Peter looks alarmed and folds his chained hands.
Ter Brugghen created a very powerful painting with strong contrasts between light and dark, and expressive facial expressions. He also showed the two figures very close up. Ter Brugghen had copied this style from the Italian painter Caravaggio, whose work he had seen in Rome.
Hendrick ter Brugghen (The Hague 1588 - 1629 Utrecht)
Title
The Liberation of Peter
Object name
painting
Inventory number
966
On view in
Room 9
Material and technical details
Technique
oil
Material
canvas
Dimensions
104.5 x 86.5 cm
Inscriptions
Signed and dated
upper left, by the shoulder of the angel: HTBrugghe[n] / [16]24 HTB in ligature
Provenance
Adam Gottlob, Count Moltke, and his heirs, Copenhagen, Amalienborg, before 1756?–1931 (as Guido Reni); Alfred Andersen, Copenhagen, 1931-1954; H. Cramer Gallery, The Hague, 1963; purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Association, 1963
