LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on paper laid down on canvas

Measurements:

10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (height) by 11.85 in. (30.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Images of the Saints, 5 March-4 April 1965, no. 78. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678, 29 November 1968-5 January 1969, no. 84.

Literature:

L. van Puyvelde, Jordaens, Paris, 1953, pp. 175-176, 195, no. 63. R.-A. d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, London, 1974, I, p. 197, under no. A97. A. Sérullaz, Rubens, ses maîtres, ses élèves, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1978, p. 144, under no. 157. Jordaens in Belgisch bezit, exhibition catalogue, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1978, p. 99, under no. 37. W.A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, I, pp. 118-121; II, pl. 51. J. Pope-Hennessy, 'Roger Fry and The Metropolitan Museum of Art,' Oxford, China, and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on his Eightieth Birthday, London, 1984, p. 231. G. Jansen in Rubens and His Age, exhibition catalogue, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1990, p. 55, under no. 10. F.S. Jowell, 'Thoré-Bürger's Art Collection: "A Rather Unusual Gallery of Bric-à-Brac",' Simiolus, XXX, 1/2, 2003, pp. 93-94, fig. 64. K. Baetjer, 'Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871,' Metropolitan Museum Journal, XXXIX, 2004, pp. 169, 197, 214-215, 245, appendix 1A no. 132.

Provenance:

Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, Paris, until 1869. Private collection, Paris, until 1870. William T. Blodgett, Paris, by whom a half share sold to. John Taylor Johnston, New York, by whom sold to. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1871.