Marten Pepijn (1575-1643)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

© KMSKA - www.artinflanders.be - Hugo Maertens Marten Pepijn (1575-1643)

Object details

Title

Marten Pepijn (1575-1643)

Technique and support

Oil on panel, extended on all sides to 74 x 59.1 cm; (top left) Me Pictorem, Pictor Pinxit / D. Ant. van Dyck Eques illustris;(top right) Ao. D. 1632 / ÆT. ME. LVIII

Dimensions

62.2 x 48.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Inv. no.

793

Provenance

After Pepijn’s death, with the gilder, frame-maker and dealer Abraham Grapheus, Antwerp (inv. 1655: ‘In den Winkel: Een Contrefeytsel van Pepyn geschildert by Van Dyck’);
sold by Grapheus’ widow to the painter, engraver and publisher Joannes Meyssens, Antwerp;
sold by him to the wine merchant Joannes Hupel, d. 1666, Brussels, 1659;
bought at Hujoel’s sale by Jonkheer Francisco Seigneur, Brussels;
bought by John Smith, in Paris, 1823, and sold to John Nieuwenhuys sen., Brussels;
Prince William of Orange, Brussels, later King Willem II of the Netherlands, his sale, The Hague, 12-20 August 1850 (73);
Théodore Patureau, his sale, Paris, 20-21 April 1857 (6);
John W. Wilson, his sale, Paris, 27-8 April 1874 (22);
Édouard Kums, Antwerp, his sale, Antwerp, 17-18 May 1898 (72).

Literature

Literature

Smith 1831, no. 371, as Van Dyck;
Guiffrey 1882, p. 274, no. 759;
van den Branden 1898, pp. 299-304;
Antwerp 1899, no. 67;
Rooses 1900, pp. 32-4;
Cust 1900, p. 258, no. 91;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 251;
Brussels 1910, no. 155;
Glück 1931, p. 354;
Antwerp 1949, no. 41;
Koninklijk Museum 1898, p. 118;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 563;
Duverger 1984-2002, vol. 7, p. 185
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 341, no. III.16 (H. Vey);
Davies 2021a, p. 59, p. 63, n. 54;
Goddeeris 2022, pp.112-13.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

06 February 2020

Dendro report no.

AN016/2020

Remarks

Remark

The original planks were not accessible owing to the extensions on all sides. The extensions contained only a few tree rings and were therefore not measured.

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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