Thomas

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Private Collection, France

Object details

Title

Thomas

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

64.8 x 51.3 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection, France

Provenance

The twelve works of the ‘Böhler series’ are probably identical to a series, which was in Genoa in the eighteenth century; the Palazzo of Giambattista Serra, Genoa; seen there by Ratti in 1766 (Ratti, 1766, vol. I, p. 230) and in 1780 (‘Dodici mezze figure in tavola d’Appostoli, opera bellissime d’Antonio Vandik’; Ratti 1780, p. 152); Princess Cellamare, Naples, 1914; bought from her collection by the art dealer Julius Böhler, Munich, 1914 (Barnes et al. 2004, p. 71).

Bought from Böhler by Baron Krupp von Böhlen und Halbach, Villa Hügel, Essen, 1915;
Gesellschaft Kruppsche Gemäldesammlung, Essen, 1980;
on loan to Princeton Art Museum 1982-2001;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 24 January 2002 (174).

Literature

Literature

On the ‘Böhler series’:

Cust 1900, p. 233 under no. 9 (as a set seen by Ratti in Genoa);
Oldenbourg 1914-5, pp. 225, 227-8, 230-231;
Bode 1923, p. 338;
Rosenbaum 1928a, pp. 37-44;
Glück 1931, pp. 37-43;
Glück 1933, pp. 290 ff;
Ottawa 1980a, pp. 38-49;
Roland 1983, pp. 23-36:
Roland 1984, pp. 211-23;
Lammertse 2002, pp. 145-6;
Merle du Bourg/Besta 2021, pp. 84-91.

On the painting:

Glück 1931, p. 40-right;
Essen 1953, no. 1c;
Essen 1965, no. 28;
Cologne 1968, no. F 9;
Ottawa 1980a, no. 4;
Roland 1983, pp. 25-6;
New York 1988, no. 17;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 207;
Washington 1990-1, no. 20;
Lammertse 2002, p. 145, n.38;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 75, no. I.63 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 45, 200, no. 46, 205, 208, 210, 211;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2022c, pp. 72-89.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 128
Dated: AD 1468 – 1595
Felled: After AD 1604 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 148
Dated: AD 1455 – 1602
Felled: After AD 1611 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

21 March 2017

Dendro report no.

FR001/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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