Saint John the Baptist

細節

18th-century follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck
Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
27 x 22 in. (68.6 x 55.8 cm.)

來源

(Probably) N. Dhikeos, Marseilles, 1965.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 155 ($21,850 to the present owner).

出版

(Probably) J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Pictures, Dutch and Flemish, IV, London, 1992, p. 106, under no. P85 (as a version).
J. Hedley, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Van Dyck at the Wallace Collection, The Wallace Collection, London, 1999, p. 102, fig. 101.

拍品專文

The present work is derived from van Dyck's three-quarter-length depiction of Paris in the Wallace Collection, London. As Hedley notes (op. cit., pp. 100-102), this famous painting has been seen erroneously as a portrait of the artist and was disseminated as such through an 1807 engraving after it by Luigi Schiavonetti. In the present picture, which is reduced to bust-length, the subject has been transformed from Paris to Saint John the Baptist, with the latter's animal pelt and staff replacing the silken drapery and shepherd's crook of the Greek hero.