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SOLD BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND
Manner of Cornelis Schut
The Four Elements: Fire and Air; and Earth and Water
Details
Manner of Cornelis Schut
The Four Elements: Fire and Air; and Earth and Water
oil on copper
12½ x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.) (2)
The Four Elements: Fire and Air; and Earth and Water
oil on copper
12½ x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Collection of Blondel de Gagny, before 1776, Paris, as 'attributed to Gerard de Lairesse'.
Collection of J.B. Le Brun, until at least 1792, Paris, as 'attributed to Cornelis Schut'.
Private Collection, England.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 14 May 1965, lot 135, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni: Neptune and Amphitrite; and Venus and Vulcan' (£577.10 to Weitzner).
with Julius Weitzner, London, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni'.
Robert Badenhop, 1941, by whom given to the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni', and re-attributed by the Museum to 'after Cornelis Schut, 18th Century'.
Collection of J.B. Le Brun, until at least 1792, Paris, as 'attributed to Cornelis Schut'.
Private Collection, England.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 14 May 1965, lot 135, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni: Neptune and Amphitrite; and Venus and Vulcan' (£577.10 to Weitzner).
with Julius Weitzner, London, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni'.
Robert Badenhop, 1941, by whom given to the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni', and re-attributed by the Museum to 'after Cornelis Schut, 18th Century'.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue de Tableaux Précieux... le Cabinet de feu M. Blondel de Gagny..., 1776, p. 64, no. 166, as 'attributed to Gerard de Lairesse'.
J.B. Le Brun, Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands, 1792, p. 18, as 'attributed to Cornelis Schut'.
B.H. Evans, Recent Acquisitions: Eighteenth Century Italian Paintings, The Dayton Art Institute Bulletin XXIV, 1965, n. pag., fig. 2 and 3, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni'.
H. Vlieghe, Nieuwe toeschrijvingen aan Cornelis Schut, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp, 1967, pp. 195-197, fig 7 and 8, as 'attributed to Cornelis Schut'.
D. Bodart, Les Peintres des Pays-Bas Méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à Rome au XVIIe siècle, Brussels and Rome, 1977, p. 53, fig. 5, as 'a later imitator of Cornelis Schut'.
Exhibition catalogue, Rubens e la pittura fiamminga del Seicento nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine, Florence, Pitti Palace, 1977, pp. 250 and 252, as 'Cornelis Schut'.
H. Vlieghe, Cornelis Schut in Italy, The Hoogsteder Mercury XI, 1990, p. 38, fig. 10 (only 'Allegory of Earth and Water'), as 'Cornelis Schut'.
G. Wilmers, Cornelis Schut (1597-1655): A Flemish Painter of the High Baroque, Antwerp, 1996, p. 206, cat. no. C3 and C4, illustrated, as 'manner of Cornelis Schut'.
J.B. Le Brun, Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands, 1792, p. 18, as 'attributed to Cornelis Schut'.
B.H. Evans, Recent Acquisitions: Eighteenth Century Italian Paintings, The Dayton Art Institute Bulletin XXIV, 1965, n. pag., fig. 2 and 3, as 'attributed to Jacopo Amigoni'.
H. Vlieghe, Nieuwe toeschrijvingen aan Cornelis Schut, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp, 1967, pp. 195-197, fig 7 and 8, as 'attributed to Cornelis Schut'.
D. Bodart, Les Peintres des Pays-Bas Méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à Rome au XVIIe siècle, Brussels and Rome, 1977, p. 53, fig. 5, as 'a later imitator of Cornelis Schut'.
Exhibition catalogue, Rubens e la pittura fiamminga del Seicento nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine, Florence, Pitti Palace, 1977, pp. 250 and 252, as 'Cornelis Schut'.
H. Vlieghe, Cornelis Schut in Italy, The Hoogsteder Mercury XI, 1990, p. 38, fig. 10 (only 'Allegory of Earth and Water'), as 'Cornelis Schut'.
G. Wilmers, Cornelis Schut (1597-1655): A Flemish Painter of the High Baroque, Antwerp, 1996, p. 206, cat. no. C3 and C4, illustrated, as 'manner of Cornelis Schut'.