Harbor Scene with St. Paul's Departure from Caesarea

Artist Jan Brueghel the Elder Flemish, 1568–1625

Date1596

MediumOil on copper

Dimensions14 1/8 x 21 1/2 in. (35.9 x 54.6 cm)
Frame: 18 7/8 x 26 in. (47.9 x 66 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.92

On View

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ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], 1596. Collection Jodani. J. B. Lucini Passalaqua, Milan; [his sale, Sambon, Milan, April 14–21, 1885, no. 32]; Bevilacqua, Milan; Count Gregoire Stroganoff (1829–1910), Rome; probably Stroganoff collection, Rome until the 1920s [1]. [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] According to Vardui Kalpakcian (e-mail correspondence 6.8.2021): After the death of Count G.S.Stroganoff in 1910 almost all of his collection remained in the Palazzo Stroganoff in Rome, but his daughter during her rare visits to Rome was always approached by those who wanted to buy 'Stroganoff pieces' and she sold some pieces before 1914 (the NCMA painting is not listed in these sales). During WWI the Palazzo Stroganoff was closed and guarded by the consul of the Russian Empire. In the 1920s the surviving heirs reached Rome and the palace immediately began to be emptied out, without any documentation of the sales. The first to be sold were the Italian paintings, the Dutch, Flemish and Northern European were not so popular, so their turn came in the 2nd half of 1920s. Therefore, we can suppose that until the 1920s this picture was still at the Palazzo.Published References"Catalogue de tableaux, objets d'art et de curiosité formant la collection Mr. le Comte J.B. Lucini Passalaqua de Milan," (auction catalogue) (Milan: Sambon, April 14-21, 1885), lot 32, illus. (b-w) pl. 7, as Le port de Cesarea.

Antonio Muñoz, Pièces de Choix de la Collection du Comte Grègoire Stroganoff, Seconde partie: Moyen-Age-Renaissance Èpoque Moderne (Rome, 1912), 68, illus (b-w) pl. 49.

Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 51, illus.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 110, illus. (b-w).

Gilberte Martin-Mery, L'Europe et la Découverte du Monde (exhibition catalogue) (Bordeaux: Gallery de Beaux Arts de Musée de Bordeaux, 1960), cat. no. 2.

Sea and Coast (exhibition brochure) (Jacksonville: Cummer Gallery of Art, 1963), no. 1.

Northern Renaissance Art in Shakespeare's Time (exhibition brochure) (Chicago: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1964), no. 1.

Dutch and Flemish Painting (exhibition catalogue) (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1966), cat. no. 5.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 40, illus. (color) 41.

Klaus Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Die Gemälde (Köln: DuMont, 1979), 30, 33, 562 (no. 29), illus. 30, fig. 6.

Bruegel: Une dynastie de peintres (exhibition catalogue) (Brussels: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1980), cat. no. 115, illus.

H. Diane Russell, Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682 (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1983), mentioned 83, illus. (b-w) 82, fig. 31 (catalogue only, not in show).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), xi, illus. (color) 10.

Stefania Bedoni, Jan Brueghel in Italia e il Collezionismo del Seicento (Milan, Firenze: 1983), 89-103 (see also 102-03), 154, footnote no. 67, illus. pl. 46.

Leslie Leonard, "Paul Appeals to Caesar," Biblical History: A Chronicle of Faith through the Ages, no. 1 (June 1987), 34-41, illus (color) 34-35.

Ivan Gaskell, Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Painting (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1989), 472.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 111.

Guy C. Bauman, and Walter A. Liedtke, selected by, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collection of North America, Arnout Balis, Carl Van de Velde, Hans Vlieghe, eds., Flandria, Extra Muros series (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 154, 156, illus. (color) 155, fig. 46, 155, detail 156-57.

Reynolds Price, "An Enormous Eye," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 22-25, illus. (color) p. 22, detail (color) 24. Reprinted in Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books (September 1997), 25, 28-29, illus. (color) 25, detail (color) 28.

Dennis Weller, entry for Harbor Scene with St. Paul's Departure from Caesarea, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 80, illus. (color), detail (color) 68.

Copper as Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1525-1775 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 152-53, illus. (color) 150, 152.

Eleanor H. Gustafson, "Museum accessions," Antiques (April 2004), mentioned 30.

To Schulting, Sant'Agata Morosina, an Argosy (Florence: Centro di della Edifimi; and Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte, 2005), 25, illus. (b-w) 24, detail (b-w) 25.

Klaus Ertz and Christa Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde. Band II: Landschaften mit christlichen Themen; Mythologie (Freren: Luca Verlag, 2008), cat. no. 314, illus (b-w).

Dennis P. Weller, “Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Paintings in Raleigh,” Codart (Winter 2009), mentioned and illus. 13.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 48, illus. (color) 229, and frontispiece.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for Harbor Scene with St. Paul's Departure from Caesarea, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 182, illus. (color) 183, also mentioned and illus. (color) 19.

Brueghel (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2013), illus. (color) 174, fig. 130 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

La Flandre et la mer. De Pieter l’Ancien à Jan Brueghel de Velours (exhibition catalogue) (Cassel: Musée de Flandre, 2015), illus. (color) 133.
Exhibition HistoryBordeaux, Gallery de Beaux Arts de Musée de Bordeaux, "L'Europe et la Découverte du Monde," May 20-July 31, 1960, cat. no. 2.

Jacksonville, FL, Civic Auditorium, "Sea and Coast," October 9-13, 1963, no. 1.

Chicago, IL, Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, "Northern Renaissance Art in Shakespeare's Time," October 12-November 14, 1964, no. 1.

Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "Dutch and Flemish Painting," April 15-May 10, 1966, cat. no. 5.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 40, illus. (color) 41.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, "Bruegel: Une dynastie de peintres," September 18-November 18, 1980, cat. no. 115, illus.

Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, "Copper as Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1525-1775," December 19, 1998-February 28, 1999; Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, March 28-June 6, 1999; The Hague, Netherlands, Mauritshuis Museum, June 26-August 22, 1999, 152-53, illus. (color) 150, 152.

Cassel, France, Musée de Flandre, “La Flandre et la mer. De Pieter l’Ancien à Jan Brueghel de Velours,” April 4–July 12, 2015, illus. (color) 133.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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