The Holy Family with Dancing Angels

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie The Holy Family with Dancing Angels

Object details

Title

The Holy Family with Dancing Angels

Dimensions

32.0 x 40.0 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Davies 2021a]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany

Inv. no.

GK 129 / 790A

Provenance

Possibly, David Beck, Delft (1612-1656);
Jean-Pierre Cluysenaer, (1811-1880), before 1872;
Barthold Suermondt, Aachen;
sold to the Royal Museums in Berlin, 1874;
on permanent loan from the Berlin museums since 1884.

Literature

Literature

Brussels 1874, p. 20, no. 51, as Van Dyck;
Mantz 1874, p. 378;
Meyer/Bode 1875, p. 119, no. 140;
Berlin 1878, p. 101, no. 790A, as studio of Van Dyck;
Guiffrey 1882, p. 245, no. 47, as Van Dyck;
Berlin 1883, p. 134, no. 790A;
Aachen 1884, p. 17, no. 185;
Berlin 1886, p. 47, no. 790A;
Aachen 1892, p. 27, no. 185;
Bode 1898, pp. 400, 447, No. 790A;
Phillips 1900, p. 138;
Cust 1900, p. 247, under no. 10;
Kisa 1902, pp. 66, 70, no. 161;
Bode 1906, p. 528, p. 528, no. 790A;
Berlin 1912, p. 557, no. 790A;
Bredius 1917, p. 1270, no. 49;
Berlin 1921, pp. 595, 633, no. 790A;
Glück 1931, p. 547, nn. 260-1;
Berlin 1931, p. 655, no. 790A;
Aachen 1932, p. 46, no. 129;
Antwerp 1949, under no. 16;
Vey 1956, p. 205, n. 32;
Van Gelder 1959, p. 75;
Aachen 1974, no. 210;
Berlin 1986, pp. 29, 230, no. 790A;
Washington 1990-1, pp. 326-8 (J. S. Held), as Van Dyck;
Glen 1994, p. 91;
Berlin 1996, p. 43, no. 790A;
Antwerp/Amsterdam 1999-2000, pp. 287-8 (G. Luijten), as attributed to Van Dyck;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 251, no. III. 7 (H. Vey), as Van Dyck;
Fusenik/Vogt 2006, pp. 88-91;
Aachen 2006, pp. 70-73, no. III.2 (A. Koopstra);
Schloss Brake/Prague 2008, p. 157;
Van den Brink/Birth 2018, pp. 182-5, no. 21 (N. Büttner);
Davies 2021a, p. 57, p. 63, n. 48;
Davies 2021e, p. 64.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

None

Panel maker's mark
Wax seals

An unidentified red wax seal

Inscriptions

1. ‘26’ in white chalk, 2. ‘G.K. 129’ in white paint

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 115
Dated: AD 1473 – 1587
Felled: After AD 1597 (terminus post quem)
Origin: north-eastern France

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 171
Dated: AD 1436 – 1606
Felled: After AD 1616 (terminus post quem)
Origin: north-eastern France

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

26 November 2018

Dendro report no.

GE010/2019

Remarks

Remark

With another head sketch; Genoa 1955, no. 3, ill.

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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