The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Private Collection

The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

Object details

Title

The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

76.9 x 105.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Previously unpublished

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection

Provenance

(possibly), sale, Regnaut, Ghent, 30 October 1821 (20), ‘Jacques Jordaens, Combat des Centaures et des Lapithes’;
with Galerie Neupert, Zürich (according to a label on the reverse), as Jordaens;
sale, Van Ham, Cologne, 14 February 2008 (1074), as after Jordaens.

Literature

Literature

Previously unpublished.

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Panel maker's mark

Michiel Claessens

Labels

1. Galerie Neupert, Zurich
2. Van Ham auction house

Inscriptions

1. ‘No 29’ in black paint
2. ‘C. Coypel’ in pencil

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

3

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 220
Dated: AD 1376 – 1595
Felled: AD 1609 – 1618
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 233
Dated: AD 1376 – 1608
Felled: AD 1609 – 1618
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 190
Dated: AD 1412 – 1601
Felled: after AD 1609 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

1. and 2. this painting

Date of investigation

21 May 2016

Dendro report no.

Dendro.dk Report 32

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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