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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 3, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale | 32 | $****** - ****** | The Martyrdom Of Saint Paul | |||
Jan 27, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture | 161 | $****** - ****** | The Martyrdom Of Saint Paul | |||
May 22, 1998 | Christie's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings | 32 | $****** - ****** | Martyrdom of Saint Paul |
paintings
38 x 22.9 cm (14.96 x 9.02 in)
oil, with traces of graphite underdrawing on panel
Mr. Wallace
. From whom purchased in Florence in 1847 by
. Sir Robert Staynor Holford (1808-1892) and first housed at Russell Square and then from 1856 at Dorchester House, Park Lane, London
. Thence by descent to Holford's son, Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926), Dorchester House, London
. His sale, London, Christie's, 17-18 May 1928, lot 38, to Knoedler's
. With M. Knoedler & Co., London, 1930
. With Scott and Fowles, New York, 1937
. Joseph J. Kerrigan, New York, by 1947
. Charles E. Roseman, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
. With Frederic Mont, New York, circa 1963
. With Newhouse Galleries, New York
. From whom purchased by Thomas Mellon Evans, Greenwich, CT, 1963
. His sale, New York, Christie's, 22 May 1998, lot 32, for $717,500
. Whereby purchased by a private collector by whom anonymously sold, ('Property of a Private Collector'), New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2011, lot 161, where acquired shortly afterwards by the present owner..
Winston-Salem, Public Library, Collectors' Opportunity, 1963 (lent by Newhouse Galleries);. Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, The Collectors' Cabinet, 6 November 1983 - 29 January 1984, no. 29 (lent by Thomas Mellon Evans);. Berkeley, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens , 2 March - 11 September 2005, no. 38.
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 200 (as by Anthony van Dyck, The Beheading of a Saint);. M. Rooses, L'Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens. Histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, Antwerp 1888, vol. II, pp. 333-5, no. 478;. A. Rosenberg, ed., PP. Rubens: des Meisters Gemalde, part of the series, Klassiker der Kunst, vol. V, Stuttgart 1906 (and subsequent editions), p. 418;. R. Benson, The Holford Collection, Dorchester House: With 200 Illustrations from the Twelfth to the end of the Nineteenth Century, Oxfor 1927, vol. II, no. 116, reproduced pl. 104;. W. Gibson, 'The Holford Collection', in Apollo, vol. VII, May 1928, pp. 198-9;. J.-A. Goris and J.S. Held, Rubens in America, New York 1947, p. 36, cat. no. 67;. E. Larsen, P.P. Rubens. With a Complete Catalogue of His Works in America, Antwerp 1952, p. 219, no. 92;. F. van Molle, 'Nieuwe Noa's bij een Verloren Werk van P.P. Rubens', in Revue Belge d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, vol. XXI, 1952, pp. 127-33;. H. Vlieghe, 'De marteldood van der H. Petrus, en olieverfschets door Gaspar de Crayer' , in Bulletin Boymans-van Beuningen, vol. XVII, 1952, p. 18, reproduced fig. 12;. L. Burchard and R.-A. d'Hulst, Rubens Drawings, Brussels 1963, vol. I, p. 311;. Collectors' Opportunity, exhibition catalogue, Winston-Salem 1963, pp. 38-9;. J.S. Held, 'Jan van Boeckhorst as Draughtsman', in Bulletin des Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. XVI, 1967, p. 142;. H. Vlieghe, Saints I-II, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , Brussels 1972-3, pt. 8, vol. II, p. 133-4, no. 137a, reproduced pl. 91;. J. Rowlands, Rubens Drawings and Sketches, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1977, under no. 190;. J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Princeton 1980, vol. I, p. 582, no. 423, reproduced, vol. II, pl. 412, color pl. 23;. G. Langemeyer, 'Kunsthistorische Nachbemerkkungen zum Katalog der Werke des Johann Bockhorst', in Westfalen, vol. LX, 1982, p. 194, reproduced, fig. 13;. J. Welu, ed., The Collectors' Cabinet, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1983, no. 29;. P. Sutton, catalogue entry for the present painting in, Drawn by the Brush : Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, P. Sutton, ed., exhibition catalogue, Greenwich, Berkeley, and Cincinnati 2005, pp. 244-247, no. 38, reproduced in color (with image reversed).
