WORKSHOP OF DIRCK VAN BABUREN | YOUNG MAN SINGING

Private collection, England;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 1 February 1957, lot 75;

With Edward Speelman, London;

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1958;

With Central Picture Galleries, New York, 1958;

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wulc collection, Rydal, PA;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 29 June 1973, lot 48 (as Baburen).

B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, The Hague 1958, p. 64, under no. A27, and p. 68, under no. A32 (as copy of a lost Baburen);

B. Nicolson, "A Postscript to Baburen," in The Burlington Magazine vol. 104 (1962), p. 539 (as a copy of the prime version in Frankfurt);

L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595 - 1624); A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Ph.D. diss., Utrecht 1962, pp. 85, note 116, 94, 94 note 4;

L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen, c. 1595 - 1624); A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht 1965, p. 85 note 116, 94, 94 note 4, p. 119, under no. A14, 147;

L.J. Slatkes in Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, exhibition catalogue Dayton/ Baltimore 1965, p. 17;

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford 1979, p. 18 (as studio replica);

L.J. Slatkes, in George de la Tour and His World, exhibition catalogue, Washington 1996, p. 215 note 38, (as a workshop repetition);

L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen 1588 - 1629, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2007, p. 208 note 1, (as workshop version);

W. Franits, The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen, ca. 1592/93 - 1624, Amsterdam 2013, p. 135, no. A24W1, reproduced plate 24a (as workshop replica).

This is a copy by the workshop of Dirck van Baburen based on his painting executed in 1622 in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.¹

^1. Oil on canvas, 71 by 58.8 cm., inv. no. 2242. See https://rkd.nl/explore/images/254757