LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

53.94 in. (137.00 cm.) (height) by 77.56 in. (197.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Utrecht, Centraal Museum,15 June - 3 August 1952; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor schone Kunsten, 10 August - 28 September, Caravaggio en de Nederlanden,no. 91 (as attributed to Terbrugghen; or perhaps Baburen); Dijon, Musée de Dijon, Les plus belles œuvres des collections de la Côte-d’Or, 1958, no. 32 (as attributed to Baburen).

Literature:

Probably 'Inventaire des tableaux de François Quesnel (1697)', in Nouvelle archives de l'art français, 8, 1892, p. 93; Manuscript 130, fonds Séguier, Bibliothèque de Nîmes (as 'des sacrificateurs, un soldat, mènent au dieu trois femmes portant des corbeilles de fleurs; for bon de dessin et de clair-obscur, par Valentin'); L. de Migieu, Livre de Dépenses, Archives of C. de Savigny, 1751 (as 'un sacrifice de Valentin'). The painting was no. 9 in the list of works that had previously been sent to M. Seguier, a well-known collector in Nîmes; Caravaggio en de Nederlanden, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht/Antwerp 1952, p. 56, cat. no. 91, reproduced fig. 69; B. Nicolson, 'Caravaggio and the Netherlands' (review of Utrecht/Antwerp exhibition), in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCIV, no. 594, September 1952, p. 248 and note 13 (this and all the below as by Baburen); V. Bloch, 'I Caraveggeschi a Utrecht e Anversa,' in Paragone, no. 33, September 1952, p.18 (as dating from Baburen’s years at Utrecht, i.e. 1622-1624); Les plus belles œuvres des collections de la Côte-d’Or, exhibition catalogue, Dijon 1958, p. 21, cat. no. 32, reproduced plate vii; B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, The Hague 1958, p. 53, cited under no. A12, and p. 119, listed under “Works Wrongly Attributed to Terbrugghen” (as dating about 1622); L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Proefschrift, University of Utrecht 1962, pp. 54, notes 31, 33, 34, 55, note 35, 101, handlist no. A8; L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht 1965, pp. 54, notes 31, 33, 34, 55, note 35, 112, cat. no. A8 (as Baburen’s last work executed in Rome, c. 1620); 123, cited under no. A19; 125, under no. A 22, reproduced fig. 12; L.J. Slatkes and W. Stechow, Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore 1965, p. 12; B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, pp. 19, 220, 248; R. Klessmann, 'Utrechter Caravaggisten zwischen Manierismus und Klassizismus,' in Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland: Beiträge eines Symposium…im Herzog Anton Ulrich-Musdeum, Braunschweig, vom 23. bis 25. März 1987, Braunschweig 1988, p. 60 and note 5, reproduced fig. 68; B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe (2nd ed., revised by L. Vertova), Turin 1989, vol. I, p. 56, reproduced vol. III, plate 1045; R. Morselli, 'Baburen, Dirck (Jaspersz) van,' in Saur Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Die bildenden aller Künstler Zeiten und Völker, vol. VI, Munich and Leipzig 1992, p. 110; M.G. Aurigemma, 'Gherardo, Enrico, Teodoro ed altri simili,' in L'asino iconoclasta.Seicento Olandese: proposte di lettura, problemi di metodo e di interpretazione, Rome 1993, p. 42; V. White, 'Il soggiorno romano di Dirck van Baburen. La commitenza e le opere,' in I. Baldriga & S. Danesi Squarzina (eds.), Fiaminghi che vanno e vengono no li si puol dar regola.' Paesi Bassi e Italia fra Cinquecento e seicento: pittura, storia e cultura degli emblemi, Rome 1995, pp. 185-88, reproduced fig. 8 (as representing an episode from Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft's play Granida of 1615); L.J. Slatkes, 'Bringing Ter Brugghen and Baburen Up-to-Date,' in Bulletin du Musée national de Varsovie, vol. XXXVII, 1996, p. 206 and note 35, reproduced p. 207, fig. 4; J. Spicer et al., Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco/Baltimore/London 1997, p. 423, note 5; L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen,1588-1629: Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam and Philadelphia 2007, pp. 19-20, 121, 122 note 4, 176, 178 note 11, reproduced p. 420, fig. 14; W. Franits, The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen ca. 1592/93-1624. Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2013, pp. 44 note 240, 46, 107, 109-10, cat. no. A15, 111, 115, 141, 161, reproduced p. 260, colour plate VIII and p. 289, plate 15.

Provenance:

Probably François Quesnel (c. 1543-1619), before 1697 (as Bartolomeo Manfredi); 1 M. Séguier, Nimes; Marquis Laurent de Migieu (1723-1788), Paris, by 1751 (as Valentin de Boulogne); By descent to Vicomte René de Vaulchier, Savigny-lès-Beaune (Côte-d’Or).