Details
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)
The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a landscape
oil on canvas
44 x 58 5/8 in. (111.7 x 148.9 cm.)
Provenance
Marchese Ippolito Spinola, Genoa, until 1862.
Sir John S. Murray, Galashields and Selkirk, Scotland, late 19th Century.
A. Szerski, Berne and Zurich.
with The Norton Galleries, New York, from whom acquired in 1954 by Walter P. Chrysler, New York, 1954-1975.
Private collection, Dallas, 1975-1981.
Literature
M. Rooses, L'Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, Antwerp, 1886, p. 250, no. 185, fig. 66, as 'Rubens'.
W.L. Crowdy, et al., The Spinola Rubens: An Appreciation, Edinburgh, 1911, as 'Rubens'.
E. Larsen, Seventeenth Cenutry Flemish Painting, 1985, p. 124, fig. 20, as 'Rubens'.
M. Jaffé, Catalogo Completo Rubens, Milan, 1989, p. 306, under no. 914, as 'Studio of Rubens'.
Exhibited
Brussels, New Palace of Art, Exposition d'Art Ancien. L'Art Belge au XVIIe Siècle, June-November 1910, no. 410, as 'Rubens'.
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: Works by the Old Masters and deceased Masters of the British School, 3 January-12 March 1910, no. 123, as 'Rubens'.
Portland, Portland Museum of Art; Washington, Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Art Institute; St. Louis, City Art Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Art; Fort Worth, Forth Worth Art Center; Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center; Austin, University of Texas; Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jun., 3 March 1956-14 April 1957, no. 6, as 'Rubens'.
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