Master Paintings Part I
Master Paintings Part I
Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Christ and the woman taken in adultery
Auction Closed
January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp
Christ and the woman taken in adultery
oil on panel
panel: 40¼ by 54¼ in.; 102.2 by 137.8 cm.
framed: 49¾ by 62 in.; 126.4 by 157.5 cm.
Adolf Schuster, Brussels;
His deceased sale, Vienna, Wawra, 5 May 1884, lot 25, where possibly unsold (as "P.P. Rubens," and with dimensions given as 102 by 140 cm);
His deceased sale, Cologne, Heberle, 14-15 November 1892, lot 128 (as Peter Paul Rubens, for 25,500 DM);
Constantin Curti (d. 1909), Vienna, by circa 1894;
With Frans Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1910;
Oscar B. Cintas (1887-1957), New York, 1936;
His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1 May 1963, lot 17 (as Peter Paul Rubens and Studio);
Where acquired by a private collector, Toledo, Ohio;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of an Institution"), New York, Christie's, 12 October 1989, lot 139 (as Circle of Rubens);
Kurt E. Schon, New Orleans;
Sam Wyly, Dallas;
From whom acquired by a private collector, 1998;
By whom anonymously sold, Dallas, Dallas Auction Gallery, 5 October 2016, lot 42 (as Circle of Rubens);
Where acquired by a private collector, Florida.
His deceased sale, Vienna, Wawra, 5 May 1884, lot 25, where possibly unsold (as "P.P. Rubens," and with dimensions given as 102 by 140 cm);
His deceased sale, Cologne, Heberle, 14-15 November 1892, lot 128 (as Peter Paul Rubens, for 25,500 DM);
Constantin Curti (d. 1909), Vienna, by circa 1894;
With Frans Kleinberger, New York and Paris, 1910;
Oscar B. Cintas (1887-1957), New York, 1936;
His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1 May 1963, lot 17 (as Peter Paul Rubens and Studio);
Where acquired by a private collector, Toledo, Ohio;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of an Institution"), New York, Christie's, 12 October 1989, lot 139 (as Circle of Rubens);
Kurt E. Schon, New Orleans;
Sam Wyly, Dallas;
From whom acquired by a private collector, 1998;
By whom anonymously sold, Dallas, Dallas Auction Gallery, 5 October 2016, lot 42 (as Circle of Rubens);
Where acquired by a private collector, Florida.
M. Rooses, "Oeuvre de Rubens: Addenda et Corrigenda," in Bulletin-Rubens (Annals de la Commission officielle instituée par le Conseil communal de la ville d'Anvers pour la publication des documents relatifs à la vie et aux oeuvres de Rubens, V, 1910, pp. 291-292, cat. no. 256bis (as "second exemplaire...entièrement de la main de Rubens");
A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of 150 paintings by Old Masters of Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish and French Schools from the Kleinberger Galleries, Paris 1911, no. 90 (as Peter Paul Rubens, and as "seems to be the first idea of the master for a similar composition, which is in the Brussels Museum");
W. Valentiner, "Rubens Paintings in America," in The Art Quarterly, IX, 1946, p. 256, cat. no. 31 (as dated 1611-1614, and as a workshop version of the painting in the Brussels Museum);
M. Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo, Milan 1989, p. 197, cat. no. 262 (as an autograph replica, erroneously illustrated with an image for cat. no. 261);
K. Bulckens, The Life of Christ Before the Passion: The Ministry of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part V, vol. 2), London and Turnhout 2010, pp. 135-140, cat. no. 30.1, reproduced in black and white fig. 143 (as Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens).
A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of 150 paintings by Old Masters of Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish and French Schools from the Kleinberger Galleries, Paris 1911, no. 90 (as Peter Paul Rubens, and as "seems to be the first idea of the master for a similar composition, which is in the Brussels Museum");
W. Valentiner, "Rubens Paintings in America," in The Art Quarterly, IX, 1946, p. 256, cat. no. 31 (as dated 1611-1614, and as a workshop version of the painting in the Brussels Museum);
M. Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo, Milan 1989, p. 197, cat. no. 262 (as an autograph replica, erroneously illustrated with an image for cat. no. 261);
K. Bulckens, The Life of Christ Before the Passion: The Ministry of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part V, vol. 2), London and Turnhout 2010, pp. 135-140, cat. no. 30.1, reproduced in black and white fig. 143 (as Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens).
Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1907;
Brussels, Palais du Cinquantenaire, Exposition d'Art Ancien: L'Art Belge au XVIIe Siècle, June - November 1910, no. 314, lent by M.F. Kleinberger, Paris (as Rubens);
Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, 17 January - 12 February 1912, no. 207 (as Rubens);
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Sixty Paintings and Drawings by Peter Paul Rubens, 13 February - 15 March 1936, no. 3 (as Rubens);
Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, on loan (lent by private collection, Midwest).
Brussels, Palais du Cinquantenaire, Exposition d'Art Ancien: L'Art Belge au XVIIe Siècle, June - November 1910, no. 314, lent by M.F. Kleinberger, Paris (as Rubens);
Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, 17 January - 12 February 1912, no. 207 (as Rubens);
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Sixty Paintings and Drawings by Peter Paul Rubens, 13 February - 15 March 1936, no. 3 (as Rubens);
Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, on loan (lent by private collection, Midwest).