CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (?UTRECHT 1594⁄5-1667)
CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (?UTRECHT 1594⁄5-1667)
CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (?UTRECHT 1594⁄5-1667)
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CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (?UTRECHT 1594 / 5-1667)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Details
CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (?UTRECHT 1594 / 5-1667)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
oil on panel
9 7⁄8 x 12 ½ in. (25.1 x 31.7 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Msr. Nourri; his sale, J. Foillet and J. Delalande, Paris, 24 February-14 March 1785, lot 31.
(Probably) Lewis Loyd (1811-1891), Monks Orchard, Croydon, by the middle of the 19th century, and by descent in the family to his great-nephew,
Edward Noel Farnham Loyd (1889-1962), Shaw Hill, Wiltshire; his sale, Christie's, London, 30 April 1937, lot 125, where acquired for 17 gns. by the following,
with P.& D. Colnaghi, London (stock no. A1933), where acquired in 1951 by the following,
Rowland Bourdon-Muller, and by whom gifted anonymously the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on 13 December 1951.
Literature
T.O. Metcalf, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Seventy-Sixth Annual Report for the Year 1951, Boston, 1952, p. 42.
W.G. Constable, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in Oil, Tempera and Pastel, Boston, 1955, p. 52.
N.C. Sluijter-Seijffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch (ca. 1593-1667), Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leiden, 1984, pp. 105, 140, 142 and 231, no. 69.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 230, pl. II.
P.C. Sutton, Masters of the 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1987, pp. 409-410.
A. Chong, 'The Drawings of Cornelis van Poelenburch,' Master Drawings, Spring 1987, pp. 41-42, under nos. 71 and 82.
N.H.J. Hall, ed., Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi in New York, Boston, 1992, p. 127.
R. Baer, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 2002, p. 47.
S. Donahue Kuretsky, ed., Time and Transformation in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Poughkeepsie, 2005, p. 240, fig. 147.
N.C. Sluijter-Seijffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch 1594⁄5-1667: The Paintings, Amsterdam, 2016, pp. 115, 117 and 304, no. 40, fig.115.
Exhibited
Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Italy through Dutch Eyes: Dutch Seventeenth Century Landscape Artists in Italy, 22 April - 24 May 1964, no. 49.

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Lot Essay

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is among the most common themes in Cornelis van Poelenburgh's oeuvre, with ten autograph treatments of the subject and several further copies. Although many of the scenes are situated in Italianate landscapes, only one is considered to have been completed during the artist's time in Italy, now in the Castello Sforzesco, Museo d'Arte Antico, Milan (inv. no. 488). The present painting relates to two drawings, likely produced in Italy and carried back to the Netherlands for use in Poelenburgh's studio. One now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no. 8412) depicts the Arcus Argentariorum, a Roman arch dedicated to the Emperor Septimus Severus, which was incorporated into the western wall of the Church of San Giorgio in Velabro. The other drawing, although devoid of figures, served as the basis for the present painting and shows the ruined arch in an extended hilly landscape (fig. 1, Städel Museum, Frankfurt).

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