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Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)

The Virgin and Child

Details

Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
The Virgin and Child
oil on canvas, transferred from panel
49 x 44 5/8 in. (124.5 x 113.3 cm.)
with the inventory number '47' (lower left)

Provenance

Count Alessandro Corsini, Rome, as van Dyck.
with Howard Young, New York, 1920, as van Dyck.
William A. Fisher, Detroit, as van Dyck, by whom bequeathed to the Detroit Institutes of Art in 1960.

Literature

Catalogue of the Exhibition of the King's Pictures, Royal Academy of the Arts, 1946-1947, p. 104, under no. 292.
(Probably) O. Millar, Pictures in the Royal Collection. Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian Pictures (text), London, 1963, p. 103, under no. 161, as a copy.
M. Grimes, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Homage to Rubens, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 10 January-9 April 1978, no. 8.
J.S. Held, Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th century (The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts), Detroit, 1982, pp. 44-46, as a copy after van Dyck.
(Probably) E. Larsen, Van Dyck. The Paintings, Freren, 1998, II, p. 262, under no. 642, as a copy.

Exhibited

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Eighth Loan Exhibition ... by Anthony van Dyck, 3-20 April 1929, no. 15, as van Dyck.

Sale room notice

Please note that the correct medium for this painting is oil on canvas and not oil on canvas, transfered from panel, as stated in catalogue.

Lot Essay

The present lot is one of a number of versions after an original by van Dyck in the collection of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, England. That the present work was originally painted on panel is somewhat unusual for a studio piece given that the original has a canvas support. This consideration, along with the numerous pentimenti evident, suggests that van Dyck might have been involved in the final retouching of the present work.

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