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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.58
People
Frans Snyders, Flemish (Antwerp 1579 - 1657 Antwerp)
Previously attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Peace and Plenty
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1615 -1618
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228607

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
198.1 × 266.7 cm (78 × 105 in.)
framed: 198.1 × 266.7 cm (78 × 105 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: F. Snyders fecit

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles I of England? Joseph Bonaparte, Count de Survilliers, New Jersey, offered for sale [Thomas Birch, Bordentown, New Jersey, September 17-18, 1845, lot 121, not sold]. Sale, 1847? James Robb, offered for sale [New Orleans, March 1, 1859, not sold] and offered for sale through [American Art Galleries, New York, April 24-26, 1912, lot 518], likely bought in by the family. J. Hampton Robb, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James Hampden Robb
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.58
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Valuable Paintings & Statuary, the Collection of the Late Joseph Bonaparte, Count de Survilliers, auct. cat. (Bordentown, New Jersey, September 17-18, 1845), p. 9, lot 101
  • Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings and Other Works of Art beloning to James Robb, Esq., auct. cat. (New Orleans, March 1, 1859), p. 10, lot 55
  • The Rare Art Treasures and Other Costly Contents of the Residence of the Late J. Hampden Robb, auct. cat., American Art Galleries (New York, April 26, 1912), lot 518, repr.
  • Sir Oliver Millar, ed., The Inventories and Valuation of the King's Goods 1649-1651, The Walpole Society, Robert Maclehose and Company Limited, and The University Press, Glasgow (Glasgow, 1972), Possibly p. 70, no. 25
  • Hella Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Munich, 1989), no. 273, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Susan Merriam, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image, Ashgate Publishing (Farnham, Surrey, UK, 2011), p. 5, fig. 1.1

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