Lot Essay
We are grateful for Dr. Bernadette Van Haute for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs (written communication, 13 March 2008).
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Details
David Rijckaert III (Antwerp 1612-1661)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
oil on copper
60.8 x 88.2 cm.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
oil on copper
60.8 x 88.2 cm.
Provenance
with Kunsthandel Amoba, Amsterdam, 1941.
Literature
A.P. De Mirimonde, 'La musique et la fantastique chez David Rijckaert III', in: Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 1968, p. 212, fig. 43, as attributed to Rijckaert.
B. Van Haute, David III Ryckaert : a seventeenth-century Flemish painter of peasant scenes, Turnhout, 1999, p. 161, no. B1, fig. 174, as probably by Rijckaert.
B. Van Haute, David III Ryckaert : a seventeenth-century Flemish painter of peasant scenes, Turnhout, 1999, p. 161, no. B1, fig. 174, as probably by Rijckaert.
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