ADAM DE COSTER (MECHELEN 1585/1586-1643 ANTWERP) - photo 1
ADAM DE COSTER (MECHELEN 1585/1586-1643 ANTWERP) - photo 2
ADAM DE COSTER (MECHELEN 1585/1586-1643 ANTWERP) - photo 3

ADAM DE COSTER (MECHELEN 1585/1586-1643 ANTWERP)

Lot 53
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 53 | ADAM DE COSTER (MECHELEN 1585/1586-1643 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
ADAM DE COSTER (MECHELEN 1585⁄1586-1643 ANTWERP)

The Denial of Saint Peter

oil on canvas

42 7⁄8 x 51 ¾ in. (109 x 131.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) sold by the artist to the art dealer Jehan van Mechelen, Antwerp, as mentioned in a notarial document dated 27 January 1627.

(Possibly) Bartholomeus Floquet (circa 1650-1690), Vienna.

(Possibly) Visconti collection, Milan, by the eighteenth century.

Luigi Koelliker, Milan,

with Robilant and Voena, London, by 2005, whence acquired by the present owner.



Literature

J.T. Spike, Caravaggio and his world: darkness and light, E. Capon, ed., exhibition catalogue, Sydney and Melbourne, 2003-2004, pp. 124-125, no. 23, illustrated.

J. Bikker, The International Caravaggesque Movement: French Dutch and Flemish Caravaggesque paintings from the Koelliker collection, exhibition catalogue, London, 2005, pp. 36-37, illustrated.

G. Papi, Gherardo delle Notti: Quadri bizzarrissimi e cene allegre, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 2015, pp. 238–239, no. 52, illustrated.

A. Delvingt, ‘A Magnificent Nocturnal Work by the Flemish Caravaggist Adam de Coster', Varia: peintures, dessins et sculptures, de Coster a Hartung: acquisitions récentes, M. Korchane and G. Perthuis, eds., exhibition catalogue, Lyon, 2015, pp. 13-19 and 125-127, under no. 2, fig. 4.



Exhibited

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Caravaggio and his world: darkness and light, 29 November 2003-30 May 2004, no. 23.

London, Robilant and Voena, The International Caravaggesque Movement: French, Dutch, and Flemish Caravaggesque Paintings from the Koelliker Collection, 20 June-15 July 2005, unnumbered.

Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Gherardo delle Notti: Quadri bizzarrissimi e cene allegre, 10 February-24 May 2015, no. 52.

Milan, Palazzo Reale, La Tour: L'Europa della luce, 7 February-7 June 2020, no. IV.5.

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, on loan 1 November 2020-31 December 2021.

Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Art, on loan 24 March 2022-1 December 2023.
Artist:Adam de Coster (1586 - 1643)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Belgium, Western Europe
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