Man with Folded Hands (Penitent Peter?)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Object details

Title

Man with Folded Hands (Penitent Peter?)

Technique and support

Oil on paper laid on panel

Dimensions

58.3 x 46.7 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Munich 2019-20]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Provenance

Bildergalerie Sanssouci;
presented to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum by Emperor Wilhelm II, 1906.

Literature

Literature

Bode 1888-1909, p. 23;
Bode 1906, pp. 264-5, as Van Dyck and Jordaens;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 34-left;
Haberditzl 1909, p. 62, no. 34;
Glück 1927, p. 143;
Rosenbaum 1928a, p. 11;
Gemäldegalerie Berlin 1931, p. 144, no. 790F;
Glück 1931, p. 32-right, as ‘eine von Jordaens bildmässig erweiterte Ölstudie’ (‘an oil study expanded by Jordaens’);
Glück 1933, pp. 300, 410, n. e;
Vey 1958, p. 107;
Vey 1962, p. 134;
Jaffé 1996, vol. I, p. 94, n. 59;
Ottawa 1968-9, p. 84, under no. 25, as Van Dyck and Jordaens;
Gemäldegalerie Berlin 1978, pp. 147-8, no. 790F;
Gemäldegalerie Berlin 1986, pp. 29, 227;
Gemäldegalerie Berlin 1996, pp. 43, 282;
Schnackenburg 2001, pp. 108-9;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 45, no. I.29 (N. De Poorter), as Van Dyck with the shoulder and hands by Jordaens;
Munich 2019-20, pp. 132, 135, as Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Labels

Museum labels

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 187
Dated: AD 1450 – 1636
Felled: After AD 1646 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 182
Dated: AD 1504 – 1631
Felled: After AD 1641 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

10 December 2018

Dendro report no.

GE014/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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