The Centaur Nessus abducts Dejanira

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)


Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany

Object details

Title

The Centaur Nessus abducts Dejanira

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

70.6 x 110 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Rubens and studio [Wegener 2000]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany

Inv. no.

PAM 859

Provenance

Count Moritz von Brabeck, before 1792;
Count Andreas Stolberg, Schloss Stöder;
Royal Collection of the House of Hannover;
Collection of the Altfürstlich Braunschweigisches Allodioum Museum at Landschaftsstrasse no.3, Hannover, 1872-1886;
in the Provinzial-Museum, Hannover since 1893;
Acquired by that museum, the predecessor of the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, 1925.

Literature

Literature

Hildesheim 1792, pp. 30ff., no. 35;
Söder 1797, pp. 95ff.;
Söder 1799, pp. 54ff.;
Westfälischer Anzeiger 1802, no. 99;
Meusel 1803, p. 141;
Söder 1805, p. 70, verses 1033-1036;
Söder 1808, s.p.;
Söder 1824, p. 17, no. 4;
Söder 1856, p. 17, no. 4;
Versteigerung Brabeck 1859, no. 226;
Parthey 1863-64, II, p. 426, no. 204;
Kunst für Alle 1886/87, p. 124;
Rooses 1886-92, III, 1890, pp. 70-71, doubting Rubens’ authorship;
Rosenberg 1906, pp. 367, 483, as Rubens;
Mireur 1901-12, VI (1911), p. 355;
Blume 1919, p. 69;
Oldenbourg 1921, p. 453, as after Rubens;
Erdmann 1929-30, p. 68;
Brussels 1937, no. 111, as Rubens (L. van Puyvelde);
Prado Museum 1952, p. 567;
Engfer 1957, p. 37;
Alpers 1971, p. 200;
Prado Museum 1975, p. 337;
Held 1980, I, pp. 269 ff., as Rubens and Jordaens;
Bénézit 1976, IX, p. 160;
Grohn 1984, p. 88;
Jaffé 1984, p. 787, as Rubens and Jordaens;
Wegener 2000, pp. 306-308, no.155, as Rubens and studio.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Wax seals

An unidentified wax seal

Labels

1. Museum label;
2. Brussels 1937 exhibition label

Date of investigation

16 May 2018

Dendro report no.

GE007/2018

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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