Venus disarming Mars

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

Venus disarming Mars

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

29.6 x 43.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Attributed to Van Dyck [Davies 2022b]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom

Inv. no.

248

Provenance

General John Guise (1682/3-1765), London;
bequeathed by him to the museum.

Literature

Literature

Christ Church Oxford 1916, no. 325, as Van Dyck;
Vey 1956, p. 197;
Antwerp 1960, no. 130;
Christ Church Oxford 1967, no. 248;
Baumstark 1974, pp. 186-8, n. 429;
Rotterdam/Braunschweig 1983-4, no. 20;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 739;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 404, no. III.A11 (H. Vey), as follower of Van Dyck;
Seim 2022, pp. 31, 35, 37-9, 42 n. 13;
Davies 2022b, pp. 45, 49-52, 53 nn. 13, 14, as attributed to Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Two hands and partial Castle

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 91
Dated: AD 1514 – 1604
Felled: After AD 1614 (terminus post quem)
Origin: coastal western mainland of Europe (Low countries/ north-eastern France)

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 181
Dated: AD 1425 – 1605
Felled: After AD 1615 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

1. and plank 1 from Anthony Van Dyck, Rinaldo and Armida, National Gallery, London, UK (LO03001),1. and plank 1 from related to Anthony Van Dyck, Adoration of the Shepherds, private, UK (LO022/2019); 2. and plank 2 from Anthony Van Dyck, Rinaldo and Armida, National Gallery, London, UK (LO03002),2. and plank 2 from related to Anthony Van Dyck, Adoration of the Shepherds, private, UK (LO022/2019): after AD 1616 (terminus post quem)

Date of investigation

30 October 2018

Dendro report no.

UK013/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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