LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

22.91 in. (58.20 cm.) (height) by 37.24 in. (94.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

the reverse of the panel bears the brand of the Antwerp panel-makers' guild and the maker's mark of Michiel Vriendt ( MV in monogram)

Exhibited:

London, National Gallery, on loan, 1980-1988;. London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thirty-five Paintings from the Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, 8 November-14 December 1984, no. 3;. Leeds Castle, Kent, on loan, 1988-1995 ;. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, The Age of Rubens, September 1993 - April 1994, no. 17 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. New Orleans 1997, no 43 (as Rubens and attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger);. Baltimore 1997, no. 42 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger);. Staatliche Museen, Kassel and Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, Pan & Syrinx: Eine erotische Jagd. Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel und ihre Zeitgenossen, 19 March - 22 August 2004, no. 23 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger(?) - the author noting the difficulty of distinguishing between the father and son)..

Literature:

G. Campori, Riccolta di catal. ed. invent. ined (1870), p. 191 (according to P. Sutton, below);. Possibly J Denucé, "Brieven en Documenten betreffend Jan Brueghel I en II," in Bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de Vlaamsche kunst, vol. III 1934, p. 142;. A. Pigler Barockthemen, 1956, p. 191 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. M. Jaffé, "Rubens and Raphel," in Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art Presented to Anthony Blunt, London and New York 1967, p. 100, reproduced, fig. 3 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. M. Jaffé, Rubens and Italy, 1977, p. 23, note 50 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. J. Müller Hofstede, "Rubens und Jan Brueghel: Diana und Ihre Nymphen," Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, cat. nos. 10/11, 1968, p. 231 (as Rubens and suggesting a co-attribution to Jan Brueghel the Younger;. K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, Cologne 1979, pp. 417-420, 622-623, cat. no. 384a, reproduced fig. 504 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. M. Kitson, in The Burlington Magazine 122 (September 1980), pp. 646, 664, reproduced fig. 63 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel [sic]);. K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Jüngere (1601-1678), Freren 1984, pp. 70-71, 81, 417-418, cat. no. 256, reproduced (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger);. M. Jaffé, Rubens, Catalogo Completo, Milan 1989, p. 231, cat no. 442, reproduced (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. P.C. Sutton in The Age of Rubens, exhibition catalogue Boston and Toledo 1993-1994, pp. 35, 221, 260-262, cat. no. 17, reproduced (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder);. A. Balis, "The Age of Rubens - Book Review," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 136, January 1994, p. 53 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger);. New Orleans 1997, cat. no 43, reproduced (as Rubens and attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger);. Baltimore 1999, cat. no. 42, reproduced (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger);. J. Lange, in Pan & Syrinx: Eine erotische Jagd. Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel und ihre Zeitgenossen, exhibition catalogue, Kassel and Frankfurt-am-Main 2004, cat. no. 23, (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger(?) - the author noting the difficulty of distinguishing between the father and son), reproduced.

Provenance:

Graf Schönborn, Schloss Pommersfelden;. Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (A. M. Le Comte de Schönborn), 17-18 May 1867, lot 210 for 7,000 francs;. Salomon Goldschmidt, Paris;. His (anonymous) sale, Paris, Georges Petit (M.G.., 14-17 May 1898, lot 95, reproduced, 9,200 francs, to Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt-am-Main;. By whom sold to the city of Frankfurt-am-Main November 1938;. Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, inv. no. SG 894;. Transferred to Central Collecting Point Wiesbaden 1947 and restituted to the heirs of Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 1948;. With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, circa 1960;. Brian Jenks, Astbury Hall, Shropshire;. With Edward Speelman, London, 1979-80;. British Rail Pension Fund Collection;. By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 1995, lot 42 (as Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Younger);. David Koetser, 1995. .