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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 3, 2021 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher | 116 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Dr Théodore Turquet de Mayerne |
paintings
115 x 91.5 cm (45.28 x 36.02 in)
oil on canvas
Possibly John Hoppner RA (1758-1810), 1810;
Dr James Aspell, New York, 1936;
John Wanamaker, New York, 1938;
George Calvert;
Schaeffer Brandt Inc., New York, 1942;
Colonel Paul, 1944;
Morris I. Kaplan, Chicago;
By whom posthumously sold, London, Sotheby’s, 12 June 1968, lot 84, reproduced (as Rubens), where purchased by ‘Coulton’;
Private collection, USA;
Anonymous sale (‘A Private Midwestern Collection’), New York, Christie’s, 11 January 1989, lot 180, reproduced (as Rubens);
Private collection, Spain;
Thence by descent.
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Sixty Paintings and Some Drawings by Peter Paul Rubens , 13 February-15 March 1936, no. 32 (as Rubens);
Atlanta, Atlanta Museum, 1939 (as Rubens);
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1942 (as Rubens);
New York, Schaeffer & Brandt, Inc., Peter Paul Rubens. Loan Exhibition , 23 November-19 December 1942, no. 12 (as Rubens);
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972 (according to a label on the reverse).
M. Rooses, L’Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, 5 vols, Antwerp 1886-1892, vol IV, p. 213, no. 993;
T. Gibson, Letters of Dr Théodore de Mayerne to the Syndics and Executive Council of the Republic of Geneva, Annals of Medical History , vol. IX, 1937, p. 403, fig. 1 (as Rubens);
T. Gibson, The Iconography of Dr. Théodore Turquet de Mayerne, Annals of Medical History , 3 rd Series, vol. III, 1941, p. 293, fig. 5 (as Rubens);
W.R. Valentiner, ‘Rubens’ Paintings in America’, The Art Quarterly , vol IX, 2, Spring 1946, p. 164, no. 108;
J.A. Goris and J.S. Held, Rubens in America, Antwerp 1947, p. 29, no. 16, reproduced pl. 24 (as Rubens);
L. Burchard and R.A. d’Hulst, Rubens Drawings , 2 vols, Brussels 1963, vol. I, p. 265, under no. 171 (as a contemporary replica, of equal quality to the New York University painting);
D. Piper, Catalogue of Seventeenth-Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714 , Cambridge 1963, p. 229, under no. 1652;
C. Davis, Rubens and Mayerne, unpublished dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1967, p. 25, no. 2;
F. Huemer, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Part XIX (1). Portraits , London and Brussels 1977, pp. 176-77, under no. 46 (as a contemporary replica);
K. Van der Stighelen and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Part XIX (3). Portraits of unidentified and newly identified sitters painted in Antwerp , London and Turnhout 2021, pp. 35-36 (‘The problems of the attribution of the drawing and the various portraits is left out of consideration here’, n. 76).
Property from a Private Collection
Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp
Portrait of Dr Théodore Turquet de Mayerne
oil on canvas
unframed: 115 x 91.5 cm.; 45⅜ x 36 in.
framed: 138.7 x 115 cm.; 54⅝ x 45⅜ in.
