LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
65.24 in. (165.70 cm.) (height) by 83.27 in. (211.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and dated lower right: T.D. Baburen / ...fecit An° 16...3 [1623]
Exhibited:
Denver, Art Museum, Baroque Art: Era of Elegance, 3 October - 15 November 1971, (reproduced in the catalogue p. 87); Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Nieuw Licht op de Gouden Eeuw, 13 November 1986 - 12 January 1987, no. 37; Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht: Hendrick ter Brugghen und seine Zeitgenossen, February - 12 April 1987, no. 37; Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Het Gedroomde Land: Pastorale schilderkunst in de Gouden Eeuw, 29 May - 29 August 1993, cat. no. 4; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Saints and Sinners, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, 27 September - 13 December 1998, no. 5, (reproduced p. 74).
Literature:
G. Isarlo, Caravage et le caravagisme européen, vol. II, Aix-en-Provence 1941, p. 72 (subject wrongly identified as "Herminie et le Berger");. E. Schleier, 'A Lost Baburen Rediscovered,' in Burlington Magazine, CXIV, 836, November 1972, p. 787, note 5;. L.J. Slatkes, 'Additions to Dirck van Baburen,' in Album Amicorum J.G. van Gelder, The Hague 1973, pp. 267-268; 272, notes 6-11, reproduced fig. 2;. A. McNeil Kettering, 'The Batavian Arcadia: Pastoral Themes in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art' (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley), vol. I, 1974, pp. 217-220, vol. II, p. 444, notes 8, 11, Appendix, pp. 501, 561;. B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, p. 17, reproduced on dust-jacket;. C. Brown in A. Blankert et al., Gods, Saints & Heroes: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C. 1980 - 1981, p. 110;. A. McNeil Kettering, The Dutch Arcadia, Pastoral Art and Its Audience in the Golden Age, Montclair, New Jersey 1983, p. 164, under note 19, pp. 174, 189;. P. Janssen, 'Jan van Bijlert (1597/98-1671), schilder uit Utrecht' (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht), 1984, p. 52;. C. Brown, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadephia 1984, p. 130;. M.A.H. te Poel, 'De Granida en Daifilo voorstellingen in de Nederlandse schilderkunst in de 17de eeuw' (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Rijskuniversiteit, Utrecht), 1986, pp.17, 21-23, 50;. J.A.L. de Meyere, `Hendrick ter Brugghen en tijdgenoten. Nieuw licht op de Gouden Eeuw,' in Antiek, 21, 1987, pp. 345, 347, reproduced pl. 7;. A. Blankert & L.J. Slatkes, Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht: Hendrick ter Brugghen und seine Zeitgenossen, exhibition catalogue, Braunschweig 1987, pp. 24, 33, 188-190, no. 37, reproduced p. 189;. D.E.A. Faber, 'Dirck van Baburen, His Commissioner and His Motifs,' in R. Klessmann (ed.), Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland: Beiträge eines Symposions..im Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, vom 23. bis 25. März 1987, Braunschweig 1988, pp. 143-149, passim, reproduced p. 142;. J.A.L. de Meyere, "Granida en Daifilo" (1625) van Gerard van Honthorst, Utrecht 1988, pp. 20-21, reproduced plate 19;. B. Nicolson (L. Vertova ed.), Caravaggism in Europe, vol. I, Turin 1989, p. 53, reproduced vol. III, fig. 1070;. P. Huys Janssen, Rembrandt's Academy, exhibition catalogue, The Hague (Hoogsteder and Hoogsteder) 1992, p. 266, cited under no. 37, p. 268, note 2, reproduced p. 268, fig. 37a;. Agnew's 175th Anniversary, exhibition catalogue, London (Agnew's) 1992, under no. 4;. Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, exhibition catalogue, London (Johnny van Haeften)1992, under no. 3;. P. van den Brink & J. de Meyere, Het Gedroomde Land: Pastorale schilderkunst in de Gouden Eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht 1993, pp. 21, 24, 28 (n. 27), 29, 30 (and n. 28), 56, 58 (and n. 2), 87-91, no. 4, pp. 92 (under no. 5), 163, 164 (under no. 25A and n. 6), 192 (under no. 33), 231 (under no. 44), 241 (under no. 46); and p. 313, Appendix 2, no. 2, reproduced p. 88;. H. Bussers in Le Musée caché. À la découverte des réserves, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1994, pp. 65-66, under no. 20, reproduced p. 66;. L.J. Slatkes, 'Baburen, Dirck (Jaspersz.) van,' in The Dictionary of Art, vol. III, London, 1996, p. 8;. L.M. Helmus in Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco 1997-1998, pp. 309, 430, note 3, reproduced p. 309, fig. 1.
Provenance:
Commissioned by Peter van Hardenbroeck (1593-1656/58), Utrecht, in 1623; By whom bequeathed to his lawyer, Jan de Wijs, Utrecht; Private collection, Toulouse, 1941; Private collection.