Double Portrait of the Brothers Lucas de Wael (1591-1661) and Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Object details

Title

Double Portrait of the Brothers Lucas de Wael (1591-1661) and Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667)

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

27.2 x 23.2 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

After Van Dyck [Rehm 2018]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Inv. no.

GK 122

Provenance

The Widow Bisschop, Delft;
from whom acquired by Valerius Röver (1686-1739), Delft, 1719;
acquired by Wilhelm VIII with the cabinet of Valerius Röver, 1750 .

Literature

Literature

Causid 1783, p. 67, no. 105;
Kassel 1819, p. 43, no. 259;
Kassel 1830, pp. 49-50, no. 297;
Kassel 1878, p. 29, no. 197;
Kassel 1888, pp. 75-76, no. 112;
Voll 1904, p. 31;
Kassel 1913, p. 19, no. 122;
Moes 1913 p.20, no. 63;
Kassel 1929, p. 22, no. 122;
Luthmer 1934, p. 14, no. 122;
Voigt 1938, pp. 8-9, no. 122;
Vienna/Kassel 1955-6, p. 11 no. 8;
Kassel 1958, p.55, no. 122;
Vogel 1961, p. 24;
Kassel 1996, p. 112, no. 122;
Antwerp/Amsterdam 1999-2000, pp. 214-7, no. 30 (G. Luijten), as an unknown artist after Van Dyck;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 211, under no. II.71 (S. Barnes), as after Van Dyck;
Rehm 2018, p. 218, as after Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Covered by the related engraving

Wax seals

Red wax seal of the “directeur general des musées”, Vivant Denon, director general of the Musée Napoleon (Louvre) 1802-15

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

1

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 69
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

12 December 2018

Dendro report no.

GE016/2019

Remarks

Remark

It was not possible to undertake dendrochronolgical analysis because the panel has been set into a cradle.

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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