National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

by a 17th-century hand, lower center in brown ink: NL; by later hand (possibly Van Dyck), repeated three times, lower left verso in pen and brown ink: Come; by later hand, upper right verso in pen and brown ink: Dieu donne; by later hand, center right verso in pen and brown ink: pour la somme de deux ce [ent?] soixante douze mille / pistolles pour laquelle somme

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Provenance

Nicolaes Anthoni Flinck [1646-1723] (Lugt 959), Rotterdam; William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire [1672-1729]; by descent at Devonshire House and Chatsworth (inv.no.989) (sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1987, lot 12); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1987; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1993.

Exhibition History

1938
Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938, no. 582.
1948
Tekeningen van Jan van Eyck tot Rubens, Boymans Museums, Rotterdam, 1948-1949, no. 81.
1949
De van Eyck à Rubens: Les Maîtres Flamandes du Dessin, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1949, no. 120, pl. XXVII.
1955
100 Opere di van Dyck, Palazzo dell'Accademia, Genoa, 1955, no. 105.
1957
Paintings and Drawings from Chatsworth, The Art Galleries, University of Nottingham, 1957, no. 33.
1960
Antoon van Dyck, Tekeningen en olieverfschetsen, Rubenhuis, Antwerp, and Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1960, no. 29.
1960
Paintings and Drawings by Van Dyck, Nottingham University Art Gallery, Nottingham, 1960, no. 44.
1969
Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and tour, 1969-70, no. 81.
1973
Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973-1974, no. 81.
1975
Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth: A Loan Exhibition from the Devonshire Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1975, no. 76.
1979
Treasures from Chatsworth, The Devonshire Inheritance, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and tour, 1979-80, no. 82.
1979
Van Dyck as Religious Artist, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1979, no. 20.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, (hors de catalogue).
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 88.
1990
The Drawings of Anthony van Dyck, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York and The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1991, no. 18.
1993
Nine Old Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the Woodner Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993 (checklist only).
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 65.
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.
2000
Art for the Nation:Collecting for a New Century, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2000, 158.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

Bibliography

1905
Vasari Society for Reproduction of Old Masters. 1st series, III, 1907/08, no. 16.
1908
Pauli, Gustav. "Zeichnungen Van Dycks in der Bremer Kunsthalle." Zeichschrift für bildende Kunst. XIX (1908): 84.
1909
Haberditzl, F.M. in Kunstgeschichtliche Anzeigen, 1909: 66.
1930
Oppé, A.P. "Anthony van Dyck." Old Master Drawings. 6 (1930-31), 72.
1931
Glück, Gustav. Van Dyck, Des Meisters Gemälde. New York, 1931: 525, mentioned under S.60.
1934
Delacre, Maurice. "Le Dessin dans l'Oeuvre de van Dyck." Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Belgique 2nd series, 3 (1934), 125-26, fig. 66.
1949
Lugt, Frits. Inventaire Général des Dessins des Écoles du Nord. Paris, 1949: 1: 56, mentioned under no. 605.
1955
Vey, Horst. "Van-Dyck-Studien." Dissertation. Cologne, 1955: 83-84, 89-91.
1962
Vey, Horst. Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks. Brussels, 1962: I: 123-24, nos. 52-57, 59.
1973
Müller-Hofstede, Justus. "New Drawings by Van Dyck." Master Drawings 11 (Summer 1973): mentioned under no. 3.
1976
Tarnove, Elizabeth. The Drawings of Van Dyck (Master Draughtsman Series), Alhambra, CA, 1976: reproduced, unpaginated.
1980
McNairn, Alan. The Young van Dyck. Le Jeune van Dyck. Exh. cat. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1980: 72, mentioned under no. 216.
1987
Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 80, repro. p. 82.
1988
Larsen, Erik. The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck. Freren, 1988: mentioned under no 216.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 65.

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