Attributed to Peter Wtewael (Utrecht 1596-1660)

Perseus and Andromeda

Details

Attributed to Peter Wtewael (Utrecht 1596-1660)
Perseus and Andromeda
signed with initials and dated 'BS 1597' (lower left)
oil on canvas
77 x 60¼ in .(195.5 x 153.2 cm.), including an addition of 5¾ in. at the top

Provenance

(Possibly) Johan Pater and Antonietta Pater-Wtewael, Utrecht, until 1655.
(Possibly) Sale; Merian, Frankfurt am Main, 1711, lot 153.
(Possibly) Sale; Jacob Carel Martens, Utrecht, 9 April 1759.
with Knoedler, London, before 1929, as 'Cornelis van Haarlem'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1970, lot 16, as 'J. Uytewael' (to Lister).

Literature

C.C.M.A. Lindeman, Wtewael, Utrecht, 1929, pp. 112-3 and 254, no. 46, pl. 32.
C. Tümpel, 'Studien zur Ikonographie der Historien Rembrandts', Nederlands Kunsthistoriches Jaarboek 20, 1969, p. 161, no. 106, fig. 43.
A.B. de Vries, Rembrandt in the Mauritshuis, 1978, p. 70, fig. 36.
Nouvelles acquisitions du Départment de Peintures 1980-1982, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1983-1984, p. 37, illustrated, as 'copy'.
A.W. Lowenthal, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism, Doornspijk, 1986, p. 32, 72 and 161-2, no. B-4, fig. 139, as 'perhaps by his [Joachim's] son Peter'.

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Lot Essay

This picture relates to Joachim Wtewael Perseus and Andromeda of 1611, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. There are a number of differences between the present work and the Paris picture, most notably in the treatment of the heads of Perseus, Andromeda and the dragon. Although catalogued as ‘perhaps by his [Joachim’s] son, Peter’, in her 1986 monograph on Joachim Wtewael (loc. cit.), Ann Lowenthal, has not been able to endorse this view on the basis of a photograph.

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