The Wise Men of Matthew ch. 2 were painted twice by Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824-1886).
The image above hangs in a museum is Glasgow. The Monticelli below hangs in the wizard’s office. A pre-Impressionist, Monticelli’s work inspired Cézanne and Van Gogh, and marked the transition from Romanticism to Impressionism. Speaking of Monticelli in a letter to his brother, Theo, Vincent van Gogh wrote that he believed his destiny was “to complete the work of that man.” Over the years, Van Gogh spoke of Monticelli 54 times in his private correspondence to Theo. In one of those letters Vincent wrote to Theo of his desire to paint the splashes of orange, yellow, and red flowers under the brilliant blue sky of the South, where everything “vibrates like the bouquet of Monticelli which you have.”