Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Object details

Title

Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

49.6 x 63.8 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck (? and workshop) [Ducos 2023]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Inv. no.

1244

Provenance

Mentioned in the Inventory Napoleon 1799 as ‘Ancienne collection de la couronne’;
loaned to the Ministry of Finance, Paris, 1852 to 1996.

Literature

Literature

Louvre 1826, no. 451, as Van Dyck;
Louvre 1979, p. 180, as after Van Dyck;
Foucart 2009, p. 134, as after Van Dyck;
Davies and Moortgat 2021, p. 31, n. 8, as after Van Dyck;
Davies 2021c, pp. 23-26, p. 27, n. 12, as after Van Dyck;
Ducos 2023, pp. 22, 49, 110–13, cat. 8, 299, nn. 1–18, as Van Dyck (and workshop?).

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Castle and hands - one branding iron

Panel maker's mark
Wax seals

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

Labels

1. 130 on brown label
2. 144 on brown label

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 155
Dated: AD 1460 – 1614
Felled: After AD 1620 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 284
Dated: AD 1326 – 1609
Felled: After AD 1615 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

12 September 2019

Dendro report no.

FR004/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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