possibly, Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, Paris, his sale, London, 23-8 March 1795, day 4 (5): ‘Van Dyck, The Crucifixion, a very fine sketch, designed for the great Altar Piece, at Ghent’;
possibly, Mr Bryan, his sale, London, 17-19 May 1798, day 3 (5): ‘A very capital sketch. From the collection of M. de Calonne’;
purchased by the museum from A. W. Thibaudeau, London, 1886.

Antwerp 1899, no. 18;
Rooses 1900, p. 38;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 109;
Glück 1931, p. 246;
Genoa 1955, no. 82;
Vey 1956, pp. 176-80;
Vey 1959a, pp. 4-7;
Antwerp/Rotterdam 1960, no. 126;
Brussels 1965, no. 54;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 713;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 263, no. III.23 (H. Vey);
Davies and Moortgat 2021, p. 31, n. 6;
Davies 2021a, ill. p. 56, p. 57, p. 63, n. 48;
Davies 2021e, p. 64.

Michiel Vriendt

Museum label

Relates to the Crucifixion of Christ Between the Two Thieves (III. 22)