LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

45.59 in. (115.80 cm.) (height) by 29.21 in. (74.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Grand Palais; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, 29 January-28 November 1982, no. 107, as ‘Valentin de Boulogne’. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, on loan, 2016-2018.

Literature:

J.M. Montias, Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century, Princeton, 1982, pp. 203, 205, 233. J.P. Cuzin, 'New York. French Seventeenth-Century Paintings from American Collections', The Burlington Magazine, CXXIV, 1982, p. 529, as a very late work dating to after 1627 by Valentin de Boulogne. P. Rosenberg, K. Baetjer, M. Laing and G. Wold, '"France in the Golden Age": A Postscript', Metropolitan Museum Journal, XVII, 1982, pp. 35, 37, as Valentin de Boulogne. J.M. Montias, ‘A Bramer Document about Jean Ducamps, Alias Giovanni del Campo’, in Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on His Sixtieth Birthday, 1983, pp. 178-181. M. Mojana, Valentin de Boulogne, Milan, 1989, p. 198, no. 73, under ‘Opere di dubbia attribuzione’. G. Papi, 'Sul Attivita di Antonio Circignani, Pittore Caravaggesco', Paragone, XLI, 1990, pp. 98, 110, note 10, as Valentin de Boulogne. A.G. De Marchi, 'L'Asino d'oro—Jean Ducamps, detto Giovanni del Campo: congetture e ipotesi', Gazette des Beaux-arts, CXXXV, 2000, p. 159, fig. 2, as Giovanni del Campo. C. Terzaghi, ‘Giusto Fiammingo’, in Giusto Fiammingo: La fuga del giovane nudo, Geneva, 2009, p. 19, as plausibly by Giovanni del Campo. F. Cappelletti, ‘Giusto Fiammingo e Giovanni del Campo’, in I Caravaggeschi: Percorsi e protagonisti, ed. Alessandro Zuccari, Milan, 2010, II, pp. 437, 439, as by Giovanni del Campo. G. Papi, ‘Ancora su Jean Ducamps e su Giusto Fiammingo’, ArtItalies, XX, 2014, pp. 62-63, fig. 7, as by an artist close to Valentin de Boulogne. P. Cavazzini, ‘Success and Failure in a Violent City: Bartolomeo Manfredi, Nicolas Tournier, and Valentin de Boulogne’, in Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2016, p. 20, note 33, fig. 8.

Provenance:

(Probably) Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674), Rome and Delft, by whom sold in the 1630s to Dr. Johan Hogenhouck (1609-1647), Delft; his sale (?), Orphan Chamber, Delft, 1647 (boedel no. 810 I). (Probably) Cornelis Boogaert (1640-1679), Commissioner of Enlistments, Delft, by 1672. Private collection, France, between 1930 and 1960. with Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1974. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 11 January 1979, lot 202, as ‘Circle of Salomon de Bray’. with S. Nystad, The Hague, from whom acquired by the present owner.