‘The Marriage of the Arnolfini – After Jan van Eyck’ by Fiona Hall

‘The Marriage of the Arnolfini – After Jan van Eyck’ by Fiona Hall

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This photographic artwork by Australian artist Fiona Hall was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1984. In the photograph Hall has reconstructed her own version of the scene from medieval Dutch painter Jan van Eyck’s famous 1434 oil painting, “The Arnolfini Portrait”, by transposing the figures into a modern setting and replacing their faces. At the bottom of the frame is an insert of the original painting by Jan van Eyck. The figures in van Eyck’s painting are believed to be those of Gionvanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, a fifteenth-century Italian merchant living in the Flemish town of Bruges, and his wife.

Fiona Margaret Hall

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

1980

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

Photograph, 28cm x 35.5cm.