Lot 100
100
18th-century follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck
THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. DONALD BAUCHNER
18th-century follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck

Saint John the Baptist

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

Lot Essay

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.

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