Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Jacob wrestling with the Angel

Details

Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Jacob wrestling with the Angel
oil on panel
24.5/8 x 19.1/8 in. (62.5 x 48.5 cm.)

Literature

L. Burchard, 'Alcuni Dipinti del Rubens nel suo periodo Italiano', Pinacoteca, VI, 1928, p. 7, no. 3.
R. Longhi, 'Ultimi Studi sul Caravaggio e la sua cerchia', Proporzioni, I, 1943, pp. 19, 20 and 41, note 27, pl. 29.
C. Norris, 'Rubens before Italy', The Burlington Magazine, 76, 1940, p. 193, pl. 111A.
J. Mller Hofstede, 'Zur Antwerpener Frhzeit von Peter Paul Rubens, Mnchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, XIII, 1962, pp. 183-184, fig. 4.

Lot Essay

Burchard's early view, shared by Roberto Longhi and Christopher Norris, was that this was an early work by Rubens; this he came to reject. In the files of the Rubenianum is recorded his view that it could be the work of Cornelis de Vos and identified with De Verwoestighe van Jacob met den Angel, listed by de Vos in the inventory of Jeremias Wildens who died in Antwerp in 1653, (see J. Denuc, De Antwerpsche 'konstkamers': inventarissen van kunst verzamelingente Antwerpen, etc., The Hague, 1932, p. 166). Mller Hofstede, loc. cit., rejected the attribution to Rubens.

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