Christ as Gardener

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

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

Christ as Gardener

Object details

Title

Christ as Gardener

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

106.9 x 90.3 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.

2307

Provenance

Dutch-English art market;
Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin;
acquired by the Kaiser Friedrich-Museum, Berlin in 1928;
conserved there till 1945;
depot Museum Danzig;
Bode-Museum, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin East, till 1997;
since 1998 in the Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Literature

Literature

Burchard 1928, pp.217-18, as Jordaens;
Van Puyvelde 1953, p.90;
D’Hulst 1953b, p.108;
D’Hulst 1956, pp. 31-33;
D’Hulst 1982, p.64, note 26;
Berlin Museum 2008, p. 77;
Paris 2013-14, p.165, under II-33 (A.Merle du Bourg).

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Labels

One old and one modern museum label

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

4

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 116
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 140
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 166
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 4

Tree rings: 94
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

10 December 2018

Dendro report no.

GE012/2018

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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