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Follower of Gerrit van Honthorst
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60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description
- Gerrit van Honthorst
- A Musical Party
- oil on canvas, unframed
Provenance
Mme. A. Feyouie, London, 1950;
With Robert Frank, London;
From whom purchased by the Toledo Art Museum in 1955 (Acc. no. 55.60).
With Robert Frank, London;
From whom purchased by the Toledo Art Museum in 1955 (Acc. no. 55.60).
Literature
The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo 1976, p. 80, reproduced Plate 98 (as Follower of Honthorst);
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, p. 59 (listed under Honthorst, as a later pastiche?);
L.J. Slatkes, "Benedict Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement," book review in Simiolus, Vol. 12, No. 2/3, 1981-81, p. 172 (as by Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael);
P.C. Sutton, Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, MI 1986, p. 338 (as Follower of Honthorst);
B. Nicholson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1990, Vol. 1, p. 124 (listed under Honthorst, as a later pastiche?).
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, p. 59 (listed under Honthorst, as a later pastiche?);
L.J. Slatkes, "Benedict Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement," book review in Simiolus, Vol. 12, No. 2/3, 1981-81, p. 172 (as by Reyer Jacobs van Blommendael);
P.C. Sutton, Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, MI 1986, p. 338 (as Follower of Honthorst);
B. Nicholson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1990, Vol. 1, p. 124 (listed under Honthorst, as a later pastiche?).
Catalogue Note
This painting was originally acquired by the museum as a work of Gerrit van Honthorst and was accepted as such at that time by Sir Dennis Mahon and Benedict Nicholson. Nicolson, however, subsequently rejected this attribution in 1961. It has since then been subject to much discussion and some of the opinions among the scholars have been as follows: Peter Murray, in 1958, thought the picture could be possibly painted by Gysbrecht van der Kuyl, Seymour Slive in 1960 thought that it could be by Paulus Bor, Michael Jaffe suggested in 1966 that it could be by Bijlert and Leonard Slatkes most recently suggested an attribution to Jacobs Van Blommendale. An attribution to Abraham Jansens has also been suggested.