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Sir Anthony van Dyck

Antwerp 1599 – 1641 London

The Apostle Judas Thaddeus. 1618/20

Oil on panel. 64,5 x 49,3 cm (25 ⅜ x 19 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Sir Anthony van Dyck. The Apostle Judas Thaddeus. 1618/20.

Estimate:

EUR 60,000

 

- 80,000

USD 67,000

 

- 89,300

Sold for:

293,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on panel. 64,5 x 49,3 cm (25 ⅜ x 19 ⅜ in.). On the reverse remains of a seal, scratched away / on the reverse embossings: Hand [Guild mark of Antwerp]; GAN (joined) [Monogram stamp of the panel maker Guilliam Aertssen, identifiable as 1612-1625]. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin, dated 27 October 1927, in which work described as "ein ganz eigenhändiges Werk des van Dyck, das besonders wirkungsvoll und sympathisch, dazu gut erhalten ist“ (in the original). Repaired. At the left half of the face old overpaintings. Framed

Comparable works: Anthonis van Dyck: Head of the Apostle Judas Thaddäus, 1618/20, oil on panel, 63,5 x 48,3 cm, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Antwerp, inv. no. 2434 (OK) (acquired 1958) / Anthonis van Dyck, Head of the Apostle Judas Thaddäus: circa 1619/21, oil on panel, 61,4 x 49,7 cm, KHM, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, inv. no. GG6809 (acquired 1931).

Engraving after the motif (inverted): Cornelis van Cauckercken: S. Thadaeus.

Related literature: Susan J. Barnes: Van Dyck. A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven 2004 / Alejandro Vergara and Friso Lammertse (ed.): The Young Van Dyck, exh. cat., Madrid 2013.

We would like to thank Petra Winter, Zentralarchiv der Museen zu Berlin, for kindly providing additional information regarding provenance.

We would like to thank Hans Vlieghe and Nora de Poorter, Rubenianum Antwerp, for the valuable information provided regarding attribution on the basis of photographs.

We would like to thank Christopher Brown, Oxford, for the valuable information provided regarding attribution on the basis of firsthand inspection..

Collection Carl Ludwig von Tiedemann known as Brandis (1814–1866), Schloss Woyanow near Gdansk (complete Apostles series) / 1922 his son Reinhard Nathanael von Tiedemann known as Brandis (1853–1922), Schloss Woyanow near Gdansk (together with two further Apostle heads) / his wife Adelheid von Tiedemann-Brandis, born Freiin Fritschko von Fürstenmühl (1892–1957), Gdansk and Caputh near Potsdam / 1927 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / 1938–43 deposited with Elisabeth Berbig, Dresden / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: court files from the Regional Court III and the Supreme Court, Berlin, 1930: purchase contract, affadavit, copy of the receipt of 7/ 17 October 1927 from estate manager Alfred Pretzell 3.150 RM (judgement against Adelheid von Tiedemann-Brandis) / book inventory no. 257 (1927), as "Apostelkopf“

Source, central archives of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – SPK: correspondence between Frida von Tiedemann-Brandis, born Huyssen and Wilhelm von Bode, 1926-1928; in: SMB-ZA, IV NL Bode 5483 / correspondence between the estate manager Pretzell with the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, April 1927; in: SMB-ZA, I GG 19, J.-no. 403/1927, sheet 66