studio of Gerard van Honthorst

studio of <a class="recordlink artists" href="/explore/artists/39445" title="Gerard van Honthorst"><span class="text">Gerard van Honthorst</span></a>

Illustration number 1001695664
Dimensions: 3200x3835 pixels
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Illustration number 1001659107
Dimensions: 527x650 pixels
License under CC BY-SA

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Object information

Object category

painting

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

fragment

Support/medium

canvas, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (portrait format) 99.1 x 82.1 cm

Current attribution: studio of Gerard van Honthorst
Judson/Ekkart 1999
Rejected attribution: Joseph Wright of Derby
Nicolson 1954

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: 1620-1630 (1620 - 1630)

Judson/Ekkart 1999
Created in: Utrecht (city)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Gezelschap rond een tafel bij kaarslicht (fragment)
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Cavalier lighting pipe and an old woman filling a glass from tankard
English title: Company around a table by candlelight (fragment)
Genre: genre
Keywords: three human figures, chiaroscuro, candle-lighting, in front of the light source (backlight), lighting a pipe, cavalier, young woman, domestic (servant), beret with feather, sword, sash (costume accessory), tobacco (material), pouring (liquid), roemer, ewer (vessel), lid
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 41C741
pipe ~ tobacco

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Enid Scudamore-Stanhope (Countess of Chesterfield), Beningbrough Hall
Nicolson 1979
Rowland Charles Arthur Palmer-Morewood, Derbyshire (county)
Nicolson 1954
1934 - 1957 reported 1934 (lender to an exhibition); 1957: year of decease of the owner; painting auctioned London (Christie's) 1984-11-11, no. 57 as attributed to Gerrit van Honthorst (£16,200)
art dealer
Montecarlo (Monaco)
after 1984

Auction(s)

Christie's (London (England)) 2013-07-02 - 2013-07-03, afb. kleurenreproductie, lotnr. 141
Contributor a European noble family
145875 GBP

website auctioneer , as studio of Gerard van Honthorst; with provenance and literature

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 443, fig. 116 , as by Joseph Wright of Derby, inspired by Honthorst
Nicolson 1979 , p. 60, 223, plate 142 , as uncertain attribution to Gerard van Honthorst
Judson/Ekkart 1999 , p. 198, under no. 256, plate 145 , as: Judging from the photograph, it was very likely painted in Honthorst's atelier some time in the 1620s

B. Nicolson, 'Joseph Wright's early subject pictures', The Burlington Magazine 96 (1954), no. 612, p. 72-80, esp. p. 75-76, fig. 15, as by Joseph Wright of Derby, dating from the late 1760's and early 1770's

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001695664)
RKD/BIB (img.nr. 1001659107)

Project: Gerson Digital : United Kingdom
Gerson Digital : Italy

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Creation date: 2021-04-13; Last modified date: 2023-10-04

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