Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Maagdenhuis Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Object details

Title

Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

42.0 x 32.1 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

After Van Dyck [De Poorter 2004]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Maagdenhuis Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Inv. no.

139

Provenance

Antwerp Cathedral, 1640, until at least 1794;
Chapel of the Maagdenhuis, Antwerp, 1841;
Musée des Hospices civils (Museum van Burgerlijke Godshuizen), Antwerp, from 1884;
loaned to the Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1890;
loaned to the Royal Palace, Brussels, 1947;
returned to Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1951;
Museum Maagdenhuis, since 1985.

Literature

Literature

Papebrochius 1695, pp. 357-8;
De Wit 1748 (De Bosschere 1910), p. 4;
Descamps 1753-64, II, p. 23;
Descamps 1769, p. 140;
Derival 1782-83, III, p. 164;
Descamps 1792, p. 121;
Van Lerius 1841, p. 10;
Antwerp 1847, no. 5;
Van den Branden 1864, pp. 116, 124;
Antwerp 1872, no. 72;
Brussels 1880, p. 17, no. 8;
Hospices civils 1884, p. 7, no. 57;
Geudens 1886, p. 16;
Rooses 1886-92, IV, pp. 242-3;
Hospices civils 1904, p. 21, no. 57/111;
Koninklijk Museum 1905, p. 271, no. 111;
C.O.O. 1930, p. 19, no. 711;
Glück 1931, p. 351;
Hendrickx 1939, pp. 106-8;
Koninklijk Museum 1959, p. 218, no. 711;
Antwerp 1973, p. 10, no. 8;
Washington 1973-5, pp. 41-2, no. 8;
Scheller 1978, pp. 76-7;
Heinrich 2003, I, pp. 279-80, no. AP3*, as Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 100, under no. I.105 (N. De Poorter), as after Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

None visible

Panel maker's mark

None visible

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

1

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 164
Dated: undated
Felled: undated
Origin: unknown

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

12 December 2019

Dendro report no.

AN014/2020

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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