Christ as Salvator Mundi

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Object details

Title

Christ as Salvator Mundi

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

64.7 x 49.5 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

After Van Dyck [De Poorter 2004]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Inv. no.

A1224

Provenance

possibly, Erasmus Quellinus II (1607-78), Antwerp, (‘Jesus mette Werelt’, Duverger, Kunstinventarissen, X, p. 351);
sold by H.L. van Molman to Everhardus Temminck (1758-1837), 6 July 1803, as by Rubens;
transferred from the Mauritshuis, The Hague, to the Rijksmuseum, 21 July 1885, as by an unknown seventeenth-century master.

Literature

Literature

Moes and van Biema 1909, pp. 63, 212;
Rijksmuseum 1976, p. 211, no. A1224, as a copy after Van Dyck;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 212, as ‘an autograph work, though workshop intervention in the final execution remains a possibility’;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 66, under no. I.49 (N. De Poorter), as a ‘good copy’ after Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled but distressed

Guild marks

None visible

Panel maker's mark

None visible

Labels

Yes

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 237
Dated: AD 1370 – 1606
Felled: After AD 1616 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 178
Dated: AD 1426 – 1603
Felled: After AD 1613 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

10 October 2017

Dendro report no.

AM001/2017

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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