The Virgin and Child Adored by Abbé Scaglia

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Private Collection, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

The Virgin and Child Adored by Abbé Scaglia

Dimensions

34.0 x 46.2 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Previously unpublished

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Provenance

Gerard van der Pot, sale, Rotterdam, 6 ff. June 1808 (33), ’Une dame representant la Sainte Vierge, tient l’Enfant Jésus sur ces genoux, on voit devant lui une figure (le portrait de l’Abbé Alexandre Scaglia) qui, les mains jointes, est dans une attitude d’adoration’, as Van Dyck.

Literature

Literature

National Gallery London 1970, p. 50, p. 52 n.27, on the basis of the auction catalogue, as ‘more likely that it is a copy after, rather than a modello’.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Labels

Label

Inscriptions

Christie’s stencil

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 234
Dated: AD 1381 – 1614
Felled: After AD 1624 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 53
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

10 September 2020

Dendro report no.

UK036/2020

Remarks

Remark

? Im Kinsky December 2020

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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