Simon

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America

Object details

Title

Simon

Dimensions

64.0 x 49.9 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Davies 2022c]

Collection and provenance

Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America

Inv. no.

85.PB.99

Provenance

Probably from the collection of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, d. 1702;
thence by descent to the Earl Spencer, Althorp;
with Colnaghi, London, 1984.

Literature

Literature

Althorp 1746, nos. 339-42 (“Five of the Apostles by Van Dyck”);
Althorp 1750, (“Five of the Apostles by Van Dyck”, in the Great Parlour);
Dibdin 1822, p. 275;
Cat. Althorp 1851, no. 259;
Cust 1900, p. 233, under no. 9;
Bode 1906, p. 257;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 4-left;
Oldenbourg 1914-5, pp. 225, 227, 230-1;
Rosenbaum 1928a, pp. 37-43;
Glück 1931, pp. xxxi, 35-right, 521-3;
Van Puyvelde 1950a, pp. 121-2;
Vey 1959b, p. 92;
London 1970a, no. 2;
Althorp 1976, p. 19, no. 141 (258);
Roland 1983, pp. 25, 30;
Roland 1984, pp. 217-8;
J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 14, 1986, p. 216;
Ottawa 1980a, pp. 38-9;
London 1984, no. 41;
London/New York 1986; pp. 17-20;
Larsen 1988, II, p. 90, no. 202;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 80, no. I.78 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, p. 196, 206, fig. 73, p. 211, n. 9, as Van Dyck (?);
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2021c, p. 18, ill. p. 21, p. 27, n. 4;
Davies 2022c, pp. 72-89.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled but with a strip of lint covering the join of the two panels

Guild marks

Yes - separate branding irons

Panel maker's mark

Not visible, possibly obscured under the strip of lint

Wax seals

The Spencer red wax seal

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 112
Dated: AD 1487 – 1598
Felled: After AD 1604 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 125
Dated: AD 1465 – 1589
Felled: After AD 1595 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

06 May 2019

Dendro report no.

US015/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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