Christ among the Doctors. Dirck van Baburen
Oil on canvas
65 1/4 by 85 in.; 165.7 by 215.9 cm.
Possibly from the van Diemen Collection, Amsterdam, 1675, from which it may have passed as part of a dowry settlement to;
Probably Mansi Collection, Lucca (according to Leonard Slatkes, see note);
With Galerie Bruno Meissner, Zurich, by 1988;
By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, June 3, 1988, lot 76, for $200,000;
Dr. Hiroshi Ishizuka, Tokyo, Japan, from whom purchased by the present collector.
Literature
E. Jacobsen, 'Niederländsche Kunst in den Fallerien Mansi zu Lucca', in Oud Holland, vol. XIV, 1896, p. 97;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederlandisches Kunstler-Lexicon, vol. I, 1906, p. 38 (as unclearly signed);
R. Longhi, 'Precisioni nelle Gallerie Italiane', in Vita Artistica, vol. I, 1926, pp. 70-71;
P.T.A. Swillens, 'DeSchilder Theodorus van Baburen', in Oud Holland, XLVII, 1931, p. 88, (as unclearly signed);
G. Isarlo, Caravage et Caravagisme Européen, Aix-en-Provence 1941, p. 71;
Mostra da Caravaggio et dei Caravaggeschi, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1951, p. 45 (as half length version of the composition);
L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (circa 1595-1624)-A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht 1965, p. 57, p. 115, cat. no. A11B (as impossible to determine authenticity having never even seen an image of the composition);
B. Nicholson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, p. 17, cat. no. 3, under the heading of Christ among the Doctors (as an autograph replica);
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford 1989 vol. I, p. 54, under the heading of Christ Among the Doctors (as an autograph replica and as signed and dated 1662?);
A. Blankert and L.J. Slatkes, Holländische Malerei in neuem Licht: Hendrick ter Brugghen und seine Zeitgenossen, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht 1986-87, p. 180, under no. 34 (as monogrammed).
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Christus unter den Schriftgelehrten, Dirck van Baburen
Öl auf Leinwand
165,7 x 215,9 cm.
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Ο Χριστός ανάμεσα στους γραμματείς, Ντιρκ φαν Μπαμπούρεν
Λάδι σε καμβά
165,7 x 215,9 εκ.
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