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SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
Portrait of a Carmelite monk, head and shoulders
oil on panel, the reverse marked with the brand of the Antwerp panel-makers' Guild and the maker's mark of Peter de Noble
24 5⁄8 x 18 7⁄8 in. (62.6 x 48 cm.)
Provenance
By family tradition, Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), and by descent to his son from his first marriage to Isabella Brandt (1591-1626), Nicolaas Rubens (1618-1655), married Constance Helman, and by descent to their son,
Albert Rubens (1642-1672), married Marie-Catherine Vecquemans (1649-1711), and by descent to their daughter,
Marie-Constance (1672-1710), married Alexandre Goubau, Seigneur de Melsen (1658-1715), and by descent to their son,
Georges Alexandre Goubau, Seigneur de Melsen (1697-1760), married Isabelle Madeleine Bosschaert (1703-1764), and by descent to their daughter,
Isabelle (1728-1783), who married Jean-Charles de Borrekens (1730-1800), and by descent to their daughter,
Isabelle (1758-1836), who married in 1780 Arnould van der Cruisse (1749-1825), and by descent in the family until,
[The Property of a Noble Family]; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2011, lot 21, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
K. van der Stighelen et. al., ‘Young Anthony van Dyck revisited: A multidisciplinary approach to a portrait once attributed to Peter Paul Rubens’, Art Matters: International Journal for Technical Art History, 2014, p. 32, fig. 17.
J. Davies, ‘Anthony van Dyck and his use of panels: an introduction’, Jordaens Van Dyck Journal, I, July 2021, pp. 50, 55 and 62.
J. Davies, ‘Anthony van Dyck, his panels and panel makers: identifications and patterns’, Jordaens Van Dyck Journal, II, December 2021, pp. 61 and 63.
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, 2012-2021.
New York, The Frick Collection, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, 2 March - 5 June 2016, no. 9.
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