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SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)

Lot 137
25.01.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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$ 1 500 000
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Lot 137 | SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

oil on canvas

30 3/4 x 45 1/2 in. (78.1 x 115.6 cm.)





Provenance

Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London, in the late 19th Century.

with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1894.

Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928), Philadelphia, by 1904.

Anonymous sale; American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 5 February 1931, lot 171.

Carlberg, New York, circa 1933.

Mrs. William Fox; her sale, Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York, 1 December 1942, lot 40, where acquired by (to L. Keesing).

Mrs. Ira Spanierman, New York, 1968.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 28 June 1974, lot 58.

with Siegfried Adler, Montagnola, from whom acquired in 1978 by,

The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, from whom acquired by the present owner.



Literature

M. Rooses, ‘L'oeuvre de Rubens (Addenda)’, Bulletin-Rubens, V, 1897, pp. 70-71, no. 401.

E.C. Siter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures by the Old Masters, Philadelphia, 1904, no. 33, pl. 7.

A. Rosenberg, ed., P.P. Rubens. Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst V), Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1905, pp. 2, 463, 488, with incorrect provenance.

W.R. Valentiner, ‘Gemälde des Rubens in Amerika’, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, XXIII, 1912, p. 182, no. 1.

W. von Bode, ‘Kritik und Chronologie der Gemälde von Peter Paul Rubens’, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, XVI, 1905, p. 201.

R. Oldenbourg, ed., P.P. Rubens. Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst V), 4th ed., Berlin and Leipzig, 1921, pp. 440, 472, as ‘it cannot be assumed that Rubens himself executed or even designed this picture, which, according to the type, must be thought to have been created around 1615’ (‘Es ist nicht anzunehmen, daß Rubens dieses Bild, das nach den Typen immerhin schon gegen 1615 entstanden zu denken ist, selber ausgefürt oder auch nur entworfen habe.’)

G. Glück, Rubens, van Dyck und ihr Kreis, Vienna, 1933, p. 156, no. 2.

L. Burchard, ‘Nachträge’, in Rubens, van Dyck und ihr Kreis, G. Glück, ed., Vienna, 1933, pp. 376, 391, citing Oldenbourg’s opinion.

H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Part VIII: Saints, I, London and New York, 1973, pp. 118-119, no. 76, fig. 131, as ‘for the most part executed by Rubens’s studio’; II, under Addenda and Corrigenda to Part VIII, I, p. 179, no. 76, as ‘entirely by Rubens’s own hand’.

J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, I, Princeton, 1980, pp. 505-506, under no. 369, citing Oldenbourg’s opinion.

C. Wright, A Golden Age of Painting: Dutch, Flemish, German Paintings, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, San Antonio, 1981, pp. 64-65.

M. Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo, Milan, 1989, p. 181, no. 177.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Illustrated Catalogue of 100 Paintings of Old Masters…belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1894, no. 38.

Houston, Rice University, Antwerp's Golden Age, 8 February-23 March 1975.
Artist:Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Belgium, Western Europe, Europe
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