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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1915.13
People
Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish (Antwerp 1584 - 1669 Ghent)
Previously attributed to Cornelis de Vos, Dutch (Hulst, Netherlands c. 1584 - 1651 Antwerp)
Previously attributed to Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
Title
Nicolas Triest, Count d'Auweghem
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of Alexander Triest, Baron d'Auweghen
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1620
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Brussels
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231698

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
122 x 95.5 cm (48 1/16 x 37 5/8 in.)
framed: 156 x 130 x 15.5 cm (61 7/16 x 51 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left: Aeta Sua 48 Ano 1620
  • label: back of stretcher, printed and handwritten:: 84.358 / P / 40 x 50
  • inscription: back of stretcher, handwritten:: 154
  • stamp: back of stretcher, in black ink:: 29543
  • inscription: back of stretcher, handwritten in graphite:: 63
  • inscription: on stretcher, printed in blue ink:: 2
  • label: verso, upper left side of frame, round, black ink: K10 / CNNHO
  • label: verso, upper left of frame, black ink: K.10 VAN DYCK 1599-1641. / Portrait of Alexander Triest. / Baron D'Auweghem / Ex Lord Carlisle's Coll / Ex Kann Coll
  • label: verso, upper left of frame, rectangle, typewritten: 10. / ANTHONY VAN DYCK / Portrait of Alexander Triest. / Baron d'Auweghen. / R. Kann Collection.
  • inscription: verso, upper center of frame, white chalk: SC / 13
  • inscription: verso, upper right of frame, graphite: 4 8 [?] 1/2
  • label: verso, lower left corner, label or tape, graphite: 29
  • label: verso, bottom right of frame, black printed text: 8

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The Honorable William Frederick Barton Massey-Mainwaring, Maldon House, Devonshire, sold [through Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 13, 1893, lot 33]. [Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1895], sold; to Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1896 until at least 1900. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, by 1909. [1] [Victor Fisher, New York ?]. [Duveen Brothers, New York], sold [through American Art Association, April 29, 1915]; gift of Mrs. Samuel Sachs, Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. Ernest B. Dane, Felix M. Warburg, and three anonymous subscribers

Notes
[1] According to the 1909 "Klassiker der Kunst" this work was owned by J. Pierpont Morgan by 1909

[2] Bode's 1900 text places the work in the Kann collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Samuel Sachs, Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. Ernest B. Dane, Felix M. Warburg, and three anonymous subscribers
Accession Year
1915
Object Number
1915.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures by Old Masters, Chiefly of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, The Property of A Gentleman..., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, May 13, 1893), p. 7, lot 33 [as by van Dyck]
  • Emil Schaeffer, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde in 537 Abbildungen, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, 1909), p. 164
  • Very Important Paintings by the Great Masters, auct. cat. (New York, 1915), no. 14
  • Art in America: An Illustrated Magazine, ed. William R. Valentiner, 4, 1916, pp. 268-276, repr., fig. 1.
  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), pp. 312-313
  • Hans Vlieghe, Gaspar de Crayer, sa vie et ses œuvres (Brussels, 1972), pp. 250-251; repr. as fig.225 on p.15
  • Erik Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Luca Verlag (Freren, 1988), Vol. II, pp. 453-454, cat. no. A 136, repr. p. 453
  • 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), pp. 103, 195, repr. as cat. no. 178
  • Hans Vlieghe, "Gaspar de Crayers vroege portretten wat scherper belicht", Face Book: Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries: Liber Amicorum Presented to Rudolf E. O. Ekkart on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Primavera Pers and Netherlands Institute for Art History (Leiden, 2012), pp.109-116, pp. 113, 115, repr. p. 113 as fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • Paintings by Old Masters, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 02/01/1946 - 02/28/1946
  • Entre Rubens et Van Dyck: Gaspar de Crayer (1584-1669), Musee de Flandre Cassel, Cassel, 06/30/2018 - 11/04/2018

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