The Ecstasy of St Augustine

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

The Ecstasy of St Augustine

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

45.2 x 28.3 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

After Van Dyck (Vey 2004)

Collection and provenance

Collection

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom

Inv. no.

WA1855.228

Provenance

John Knight, his sale, Phillips, London, 23 March 1819 (53);
Edward Balme, his sale, Christie’s, London, 1 March 1823 (52);
possibly, Earl of Warwick;
presented by Mr. Chambers Hall, 1855.

Literature

Literature

Weale and Richter 1889, p. 88, as Van Dyck;
Buschmann 1916, pp. 31-2;
Vey 1956, p. 176,
Antwerp/Rotterdam 1960, no. 124;
Held 1982, p. 42;
Oxford 1999, pp. 45-7;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 659;
Antwerp/Amsterdam 1999, p. 271;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 277, under no. III.40 (H. Vey), as after Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Castle and hands - one branding iron

Panel maker's mark

François de Bout

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 121
Dated: AD 1502 – 1622
Felled: After AD 1632 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 125
Dated: AD 1506 – 1630
Felled: After AD 1640 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

1. and 2. this painting

Date of investigation

03 July 2018

Dendro report no.

UK003/2018

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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