The Ecstasy of St Augustine

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States of America

Object details

Title

The Ecstasy of St Augustine

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

50.3 x 31.0 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Vey 2004]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States of America

Inv. no.

1959.15.26

Provenance

Possibly, Alexander Voet, Antwerp, posthumous inventory, 1689;
Sir Paul Methuen, d. 1757, London;
his nephew, Paul Methuen, d. 1795, London and Corsham Court, Wiltshire;
Paul Cobb Methuen, Corsham House;
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Bt., his sale, Christie’s, London, 2-3 June 1848 (86);
Thomas Baring Jr., d. 1873;
his nephew, the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889;
with Colnaghi, London, 1936;
Christian Holmes, New York;
sale, Parke Benet, New York, 3 December 1942 (23);
Mr and Mrs L. M. Rabinowitz, New York;
gift, 1959.

Literature

Literature

Dodsley 1761, vol. 3, p. 95, as Van Dyck;
Corsham Court 1806, p. 46, no. 105;
Smith 1831, under no. 5;
Hookham Carpenter 1844, pp. 18, 197;
Waagen 1854, vol. 2, p. 182;
Guiffrey 1882, p. 250, under no. 167;
London 1887, no. 153;
Weale and Richter 1889, p. 88, no. 127;
Antwerp 1899, no. 27;
London 1900, no. 159;
Rooses 1900, p. 42;
Cust 1900, p. 249, under no. 56;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 88;
Glück 1931, p. 544, n. 237;
Venturi 1945, p. 77, pl. 36;
Antwerp 1949, under no. 14;
Vey 1956, p. 204, n. 19;
Antwerp 1960, under no. 124;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 660;
Washington 1990-1, no. 94;
Van Dyck 350 1994, pp. 191-2 (A. Balis), as Jan Boeckhorst;
Antwerp/Amsterdam 1999-2000, no. 37, as Van Dyck (C. Depauw);
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 278, no. III.42 (H. Vey), as Van Dyck;
Davies 2021a, p. 57, p. 63, n. 48;
Davies 2021e, p. 64.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

None visible

Panel maker's mark

None visible

Labels

1. ‘Thomas Baring’ /with crest)
2. Four small white rectangular labels stuck together

Inscriptions

1. ‘1959.15.26.’ in red paint
2. ‘127’ in white chalk
3. ‘No. 2’ in white chalk

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 78
Dated: AD 1520 – 1597
Felled: After AD 1607 (terminus post quem)
Origin: coastal western mainland of Europe (Low countries to north-eastern France)

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 63
Dated: AD 1519 – 1581
Felled: After AD 1591 (terminus post quem)
Origin: coastal western mainland of Europe (Low countries to north-eastern France)

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

29 April 2019

Dendro report no.

US005/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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