Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)

Saint Jerome in the Desert

Details

Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Saint Jerome in the Desert
oil on panel
47.4 x 42.5 cm.

Provenance

Comte Cavens, Brussels; Galerie J&A Le Roy, Brussels, 22 December 1922, lot 142, as manner of Pierre-Paul Rubens.
(Possibly) Anonymous sale; P. Nicaise, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 24 May 1944, lot 54, as attributed to Pierre-Paul Rubens.
(Possibly) with Leegenhoek, Paris by 1954, as Antoine van Dyck.
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 17 March 1955, lot 30, as Anthonis van Dyck, where acquired by the father of the present owner.

Literature

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren, 1988, II, p. 95, no. 219, ill., as Sir Anthony van Dyck.

Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Royale, Les 100 portraits de la collection du Comte Cavens, 1909, no. 74, as Pierre-Paul Rubens.
Brussels, Palais des Arts, Rubens et les peintres du XVII. siècle, exposition de tableaux anciens appartenant au Cte Cavens, 1921, no. 101, as Rubens.

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Lot Essay

Larsen (op. cit.) considers the present painting as a 'pruned and simplified study' of van Dyck's St. Jerome in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, in which the artist focussed on rendering of the head, hands and torso and dates it to the same period; circa 1617. Although the attribution to Van Dyck cannot be sustained today, this powerful image of the Penitent Saint is directly related to the circle of artists who trained in Van Dyck's studio.

This lot is offered with copies of certificates by L. van Puyvelde, dated 10 July 1950, and Prof. Dr. R. Eigenberger, dated January 1955, attributing the painting in full to Sir Anthony van Dyck. A third certificate, by M.J. Friedländer, dated 1 June 1944, is mentioned in the Vienna catalogue of 1955, also attributing the picture in full to Van Dyck.

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