Paul

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France

Object details

Title

Paul

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

64.6 x 49.3 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Not by Van Dyck [De Poorter 2004]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France

Inv. no.

P.46.1.23

Provenance

Revolutionary seizure.

Literature

Literature

Valenciennes 1839, no. 256, as school of Rubens;
Valenciennes 1841, no. 192;
Valenciennes 1865, no. 261, without attribution;
Valenciennes 1876, no. 82, as Van Dyck;
Valenciennes 1882, no. 82;
Valenciennes 1888, no. 82;
Valenciennes 1898, no. 125;
Valenciennes 1909, no. 193;
Valenciennes 1923, no. 193;
Valenciennes 1931, no. 53;
Valenciennes 1932, no. 14;
Foucart 1977, p. 176;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 189;
Valenciennes 1989-1990, p. 72, no. 37 (J. Kuhnmünch);
Larsen 1993, pp. 192-3;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 79, under no. I.74 (N. De Poorter), as a non-autograph variant of Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 159
Dated: AD 1442 – 1600
Felled: After AD 1609 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 140
Dated: AD 1463 – 1602
Felled: After AD 1611 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

1. and 2. this painting,
plank 1 and plank 2 from Anthony Van Dyck, Matthew, Valenciennes, France (VA002/2019)

Date of investigation

20 September 2016

Dendro report no.

VA001/2019

Remarks

Remark

exh. Brussels 1965, no. 56, as Van Dyck

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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