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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 27, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II | 438 | $****** - ****** | The lion hunt |
paintings
215.9 x 312.4 cm (85 x 123 in)
oil on canvas
Possibly offered by Rubens to Sir Dudley Carleton, 28 April 1618;
Possibly by whom gifted to Christian IV, King of Denmark, 11 September 1618;
The Revd. the Hon. Frederic Hamilton (d. 1811);
John Hickman, St. James's St., London;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 20 March 1847, lot 76 (for £300 to Colville);
Sold Privatley through Mr. Eckford to the 2nd Lord Northwick (d. 1859);
His sale, Thirlestane House, Phillips, 23 August 1859, lot 1688 (for 150 gns.);
There acquired by George, 3rd Lord Northwick, Northwick Park;
Thence by descent to his Grandson, Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill, Northwick Park, 1912;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 20 October 1965, lot 39 (for 5500 gns. to Somerset de Chair);
By whom sold, St. Osyth's Priory, Sotheby's, 19 March 1975, lot 66;
Where acquired by a private collector;
From whom acquired by the present owner, 1986.
Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1649). Exposición homenaje , Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid December 1977-March 1978, no. 95 (as P.P. Rubens).
A Catalogue of the Pictures in the galleries of Thirlsetaine House, Cheltenham, the Residence of Lord Northwick, 1855, cat. no. 155;
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Works of Arts, etc., at Northwick Park , 1864 (reprinted 1908), cat. no. 7;
Redford, Art Sales , vol. I, pp. 156-7;
M. Rooses, L'œuvre de P.P. Rubens , Antwerp 1890, vol. IV, p. 337, under cat. no. 1150. p. 337, under cat. no, 1153;
M. Rooses and C. Ruelens, ed. Correspondance de Rubens et documents épistolaires concernant sa vie et ses oeuvres, vol. 2, Antwerp 1898, pp. 137, 142, 149-150, 162, 165, 170, 181, 186;
T. Borenius, A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Northwick Park, 1921, pp. 71-72, cat. no. 155;
A. Hind, Rubens , p. 6, under cat. no. 1;
R.S. Magurn, The Letters of Peter Paul Rubens, Cambridge 1955, pp. 61-62 64-65, 67;
C. Isermeyer, Die Jagd in der Kunst , Hamburg 1965, p. 33;
D. Rosand, " Rubens's Munich Lion Hunt: Its Sources and Significance", in The Art Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 1, March 1969, p. 30, no. 8, reproduced, fig. 5;
G. Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: The Flemish School, circa 1600-circa 1900 , 1970, p. 185, note 3;
The Somerset de Chair Collection at St. Osyth's Priory, 1971, p. 11, reproduced in color;
E. Haverkamp-Begemann, "Flemish School”, in European Paintings in the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1974, p. 211;
M. Jaffé, "Exhibitions for the Rubens Year, III", in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXX, 1978, p. 346, no. 95;
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens , Princeton 1980, vol. I. pp. 407, under cat. no. 298;
K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17 Jahrunderts , Bremen 1981, vol. III, p. 38, cat. no. 4, reproduced;
A. Balis, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , London 1986, vol. XVIII, 2, Hunting Scenes, under cat. no. 6, copy 1.
Property from a Private Collection
Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp
The lion hunt
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 85 by 123 in.; 216 by 313 cm.
