Granida: a fragment

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Dirck van Baburen (Wijk bij Doorstede, nr. Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624 Utrecht)
Granida: a fragment
oil on canvas, laid down on board
48 3/8 x 30¾ in. (122.9 x 78.1 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) the painting listed as being in the collection of Jhr. Peter van Hardenbroeck, Utrecht, 1 May 1656.
with Arnoldi-Livie, Munich.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 4 February 1977, lot 79.
T.P. Grange, London, 1977.

Literature

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 17, no. 3a, fig. 118.
L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen - a Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht, 1965, no. A24, fig. 28.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, L. Vertova, ed., Turin, 1990, I, p. 53.

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Lot Essay

The present picture is one of two surviving fragments from what is considered to be the artist's primary treatment of this subject. The corresponding fragment (62.2 x 43.2 cm.) showing Daifilo was formerly with E. V. Thaw & Co., New York. The composition is known in its entirety throught two other versions: the picture, with studio assistance, in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; and the picture, signed and dated 1623, in a private collection, New York.

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