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Hendrick van Balen I (Antwerp c. 1574/5-1632) and Jan Breughel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)

The Baptism of Christ

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Hendrick van Balen I (Antwerp c. 1574/5-1632) and Jan Breughel II (Antwerp 1601-1678)
The Baptism of Christ
oil on panel
55½ x 79½ in. (141 x 202 cm.)

来源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 February 1984, lot 66, as 'Hendrick van Balen'.
with Chaucer Fine Arts, London, 1985, from whom acquired by the present owner.

出版

B. Werche, Hendrick van Balen, Turnhout, 2004, I, pp. 143-4, no. A24; II, p. 333, illustrated.

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One of Hendrick van Balen's most ambitious paintings and apparently his largest surviving work on panel, this picture has been dated to circa 1620 by Bettine Werche (loc. cit.). She compares it to the Gathering of Manna, another large-scale, multi-figural composition (canvas, 166 x 241 cm.), in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, which features a similarly posed female anchoring the picture in the right corner. In this period, van Balen was frequently working in collaboration with his friend, Jan Breughel the Elder, and the latter's son Jan Breughel the Younger, to whom the landscape in this work was first attributed by Dr. Klaus Ertz (certificate, dated 18 January 1985) and latterly endorsed by Werche (loc. cit.).

A copy on canvas (100 x 218 cm.), given to the van Balen workshop is in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (inv. 952).