Manner of Sir Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Peter Stevens

Details

Manner of Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Peter Stevens
oil on paper laid down on panel--en brunaille
9 x 7.3/8in. (23.5 x 18.8cm.)

Provenance

Lon Bonnat, Paris.
Probably Bezine collection; sale, Galerie Fierez, Brussels, June 14-15, 1927, lot 153, as van Dyck and en grisaille.
with Kleinberger Galleries, New York, 1929, no. 49, as van Dyck.
with John Levy Galleries, New York, 1930, as van Dyck.
C. McCann collection; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, Nov. 17-21, 1942, lot 422, as van Dyck, with partially incorrect provenance and exhibition history ($2,000).
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, as van Dyck, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1966.

Literature

G. Gluck, Van Dyck, 1931, p. 550, no. 285.

Exhibited

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Eighth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Paintings by Anthony van Dyck, 1929, no. 25.

Lot Essay

The present work is a version of an original oil sketch in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch at Boughton House, which was the model for Vorsterman's engraving in the Iconographia.
The sitter, Peter Stevens (1590-1658), was a Senator and Alms Director in Antwerp, and is not to be confused with the Malines landscape painter of the same name. He was nonetheless a great patron of the arts and was prominently included in The Cabinet of Cornelis van der Geest by Willem van Haecht in the Rubenshuis, Antwerp.