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Possibly Josephus Augustinus Brentano, Amsterdam; possibly (his estate sale, at his residence, Amsterdam, 13 May 1822, no. 96).[1] Lord Clifton. Edouard Warneck, Paris.[2] (Galerie Dr. [Kurt] Benedikt & Co., Berlin) and (Van Diemen & Co., New York), 1928-1929.[3] Adolph Caspar Miller [1866-1953], Washington, D.C.; bequest 1953 to NGA.

[1] Susan Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar, and Horst Vey, Van Dyck. A complete catalogue of the paintings. New Haven and London, 2004: 28. The painting was purchased by "Segault." The identification of this work with NGA 1953.3.2 is uncertain since its dimensions are smaller than than those of the Gallery's painting.

[2] The provenance references to Lord Clifton and Edouard Warneck, which are noted in the catalogue of the Eighth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Paintings by Anthony van Dyck Detroit Institute of Arts, 1929: no. 1, have not been confirmed. The painting is not among those sold by Lord Clifton at Christie's in London on 24 July 1922, nor was it included in either of the old master sales of the Warneck collection, held in Paris on 10-11 May 1905 and 27-28 May 1926. However, it is known that Warneck favored small-scale paintings such as this one.

[3] The painting was in Berlin with Benedikt in 1928, according to Roger-A. d'Hulst and Horst Vey, Antoon Van Dyck: Tekeningen en olieverfschetsen, exh. cat., Antwerp and Rotterdam, 1960: 53. Benedikt was the co-owner of Van Diemen, but also opened his own gallery in Berlin in 1928 with an exhibition of old master paintings. The painting was exhibited at the New York branch of Van Diemen in 1928, and lent by Van Diemen to an exhibition in Detroit in 1929. The Berlin branches of Van Diemen and its affiliated galleries were liquidated by the Nazis at sales held at the Graupe gallery in Berlin on 25 January and 26 April 1935, but the painting was not in either of those sales.

Exhibition History

1928
Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Art Institute of Chicago, 1928-1929, no cat.
1928
Paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck, Van Diemen Galleries, New York, 1928.
1929
Eighth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Paintings by Anthony Van Dyck, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1929, no. 1, repro.

Bibliography

1929
"Loan Exhibition of Old Masters at Chicago." Art News 27 (Jan. 1929): repro.
1931
Glück, Gustav. Van Dyck, des Meisters Gemälde in 571 Abbildungen. (Klassiker der Kunst 13.) 2d ed. Stuttgart and New York, 1931: 526, under no. 64.
1960
d'Hults, Roger-A., and Horst Vey. Antoon van Dyck, tekeningen en olieverfschetsen. (Exh. cat. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, and Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.) Antwerp, 1960: 53, under no. 17.
1962
Vey, Horst. Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks. 2 vols. Brussels, 1962: I: 104, under no. 35.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 48
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 40, no. 1174, repro.
1970
Jaffé, Michael. "Some Recent Acquisitions of Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painting." Report and Studies in the History of Art 1969 (1970): 22-23, repro., as Jordaens.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 122, repro.
1980
Larsen, Erik. L'opera completa di Van Dyck. 2 vols. Milan, 1980: 2:133-134, no. A92, repro.
1985
National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 1992: no.147, repro.
1988
Larsen, Erik. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. 2 vols. Freren, 1988: 2:A21, as "a free study from the nineteenth century, done probably in Germany by a Romantic artist."
2004
Barnes, Susan J. Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings. New Haven and London, 2004: no. I.11.
2005
Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 22-25, color repro.

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