St Sebastian after His Ordeal

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


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

Object details

Title

St Sebastian after His Ordeal

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

40.5 x 30.2 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Doherty and Woollett 2009]

Collection and provenance

Collection

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

Inv. no.

85.PB.31

Provenance

possibly, Gaspard d’Heyne, Ghent, 26 October 1761;
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Bt., d. 1838;
by inheritance to Capt. Geoffrey Egerton Tower;
his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 December 1947 (49), bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London;
sold to Lord Clark, d. 1983;
his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 June 1984 (188), bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London;
sold to the museum, 1985.

Literature

Literature

Hume 1824, pp. v, 33, no. 101, as Van Dyck;
Smith 1831, p. 98, no. 338;
Waagen 1838, II, p. 205;
Cust, 1900, p. 240, no. 46;
London 1938, p. 58, no. 109;
Carritt 1948, p. 203;
London 1953-4, p. 138, no. 506;
Vey 1956, pp. 186-87, 206, 208, fig. 17;
Antwerp/Rotterdam 1960, pp. 158-59, no. 125;
Nottingham 1960, no. 5;
Woodward 1960, p. 340;
King’s Lynn, p. 12, no. 17;
London 1968, pp. 28-29, no. 27;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 678;
Jaffé 1997, p. 38;
Barnes et al., pp. 286-87, under no. III.52 (H. Vey), as follower of Van Dyck;
Doherty and Woollett 2009, p. 49, as Van Dyck;
Davies 2021e, p. 65, p. 69, n. 26.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Castle and two hands (one partial) – one branding iron

Panel maker's mark

Reynier Roybaert

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 153
Dated: AD 1414 – 1566
Felled: After AD 1576 (terminus post quem)
Origin: south-eastern Belgium/ north-eastern France

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 85
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Planks of the same tree

1. and plank 1, related to Anthony Van Dyck, Christ on the Cross, London, UK (LO008/2020)
2. and plank 2, related to Anthony Van Dyck, Christ on the Cross, London, UK (LO008/2020)

Date of investigation

06 May 2019

Dendro report no.

US016/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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