SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)
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ID 1511775
Los 10 | SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)
Schätzwert
800000GBP £ 800 000 – 1 200 000
The Martyrdom of Saint Paul – a modello
oil on panel
15 ¼ x 9 1/8 in. (38.7 x 23.2 cm.), with later additions of approx 0 ¼ in. (0.7 cm.) to the vertical edges
Provenance
Mr. Wallace, Florence, from whom acquired in 1847 by,
Sir Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), first at Russell Square and then at Dorchester House, London, from 1856, and by descent to,
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926), Dorchester House, London and Westonbirt, Gloucestershire; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 17 May 1928 (=1st day), lot 38, where acquired for 650 gns. by the following,
with Knoedler & Co., London and New York (inv. no. A216), from whom a half-share was acquired on 30 November 1928 by the following,
with Scott & Fowles, New York, where probably acquired by,
Joseph J. Kerrigan, New York, by 1947.
Charles E. Roseman, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
with Frederick Mont, New York, circa 1963.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, where acquired by,
Thomas Mellon Evans (1910-1997), Greenwich, CT, in 1963; (†), Christie's, New York, 22 May 1998, lot 32, where acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale [Property of a Private Collector]; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 January 2011, lot 161, where acquired shortly thereafter by the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Collector]; Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 2014, lot 32 (£914,500).
Acquired by the present owner in 2015.
Literature
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 200, as 'the beheading of a saint' by Anthony van Dyck.
M. Rooses, L’Œuvre de P.P. Rubens: Histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, Antwerp, 1888, II, pp. 333-5, no. 478.
A. Rosenberg, ed., PP. Rubens: des Meisters Gemälde: Klassiker der Kunst V, Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1906, (and subsequent editions), n.p., pl. 389.
R. Benson, The Holford Collection, Dorchester House: With 200 Illustrations from the Twelfth to the end of the Nineteenth Century, Oxford, 1927, II, p. 16, no. 116, pl. CIV.
W. Gibson, 'The Holford Collection', Apollo, VII, May 1928, pp. 198-9.
J.-A. Goris and J.S. Held, Rubens in America, New York, 1947, p. 36, no. 67.
E. Larsen, P.P. Rubens. With a Complete Catalogue of His Works in America, Antwerp, 1952, p. 219, no. 92.
F. van Molle, 'Nieuwe Nota's bij een Verloren Werk van P.P. Rubens', Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, XXI, 1952, pp. 127-33.
L. Burchard and R.-A. d'Hulst, Rubens Drawings, Brussels, 1963, I, p. 311.
Collectors' Opportunity, exhibition catalogue, Winston-Salem 1963, pp. 38-9.
H. Vlieghe, 'De marteldood van de H. Petrus, een olieverfschets door Gaspar de Crayer', Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, XVII, 1966, p. 18, fig. 12, note 12.
J.S. Held, 'Jan van Boeckhorst as Draughtsman', Bulletin des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, XVI, 1967, p. 142.
H. Vlieghe, Saints I-II: Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard Part VIII Saints II, Brussels, 1972-3, pp. 133 and 134, no. 137a, pl. 91.
J. Rowlands, Rubens Drawings and Sketches, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, exhibition catalogue, London, 1977, p. 145, under no. 190.
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Princeton 1980, I, p. 582, no. 423; II, pls. 23 and 412.
F.L.M. Dony, Meesters der Schilderkunst - Het Complete Werk van Rubens, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Rubens, II, Rotterdam, 1980, no. 911.
G. Langemeyer, 'Kunsthistorische Nachbemerkungen zum Katalog der Werke des Johann Bockhorst', Westfalen, LX, 1982, p. 194, fig. 13.
J. Welu, ed., The Collectors' Cabinet, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts, 1983, pp. 108-111, no. 29, fig. 29a, and illustrated.
D. Bodart, Rubens, Milan, 1985, p. 203, no. 966.
M. Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo completo, Milan, 1989, p. 367, no. 1350.
P. Sutton, Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2005, pp. 244-247, no. 38.
Exhibited
Winston-Salem, Gallery of the Public Library, Collectors' Opportunity, 22 April-3 May 1963, unnumbered (lent by Newhouse Galleries).
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, The Collectors' Cabinet: Flemish Paintings from New England Private Collections, 6 November 1983-29 January 1984, no. 29 (lent by Thomas Mellon Evans).
Berkeley, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, 2 March-11 September 2005, no. 38.
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