Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1659)
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Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1659)

Saint Peter penitent

Details
Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1659)
Saint Peter penitent
signed 'G Honthorst.fe.' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
43 1/8 x 38 3/8in. (109.5 x 97.5cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Willem Six; (+) sale, Amsterdam, 12 May 1734, lot 133.
Berg and Solomon, Stockholm.
Anon. Sale, Stockholm, 26-8 Oct. 1933, lot 29 (a fragment of the catalogue entry is attached to the side of the frame).
with Galerie Rappe, Stockholm, 1959.
Literature
O. Granberg, Inventaire général des trésors d'art en Suède, Stockholm, 1911-12, p. 104, no. 465, pl. 62.
A. von Schneider, Caravaggio und die Niederländer, Marburg/Lahn, 1933, p. 135.
J.R. Judson, Gerrit van Honthorst, A Discussion of his Position in Dutch Art, The Hague, 1959, pp. 163-4, no. 43, where dated c. 1620. B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 59.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, I, p.124.

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