The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt

Object details

Title

The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

63 x 49.8 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Jordaens [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Inv. no.

2-57

Provenance

Acquired by the museum in 1957

Literature

Literature

Berlin Museum 1958, p.43 (R. Klessmann), as Jordaens;
Klessmann 1958, pp. 40-44;
Klessmann 1961, pp. 18-21;
Berlin Museum 1964, p.62 (R. Klessmann);
Berlin Museum 1975, p. 210, no. 2/ 57 (R. Klessmann);
Berlin Museum 1986, p.41 (H. Bock);
d’Hulst, 1982, p. 329, note 8;
Antwerp 1993, p. 46, under no. A3, note 5 (N. De Poorter);
Mateu 2021, pp. 20-23;
Vander Auwera 2021b, pp. 75-81.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Antwerp brand mark (castle and two hands)

Panel maker's mark

Guilliam Aertssen

Labels

Museum label

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 187
Dated: AD 1414 – 1608
Felled: After AD 1618 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 116 (+13 counted rings)
Dated: AD 1469 – 1584 (+13)
Felled: After AD 1607 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Date of investigation

10 December 2018

Dendro report no.

GE013/2019

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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