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The Angel Liberating St. Peter from Prison
The Angel Liberating St. Peter from Prison

The Angel Liberating St. Peter from Prison

Artist Anton van den Heuvel Flemish, circa 1600–1677
Datecirca 1625–1635
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions47 1/2 x 38 5/8 in. (120.7 x 98.1 cm)
Frame: 62 3/4 x 54 in. (159.4 x 137.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.121
On View
On view
ProvenanceProbably created Ghent, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1625–1635. Sir Edward Stewart-Richardson (1872–1914), Pitfour Castle, Perth Scotland,as by Spagnoletto (Jusepe de Ribera). [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 6, 1949, no. 153, as Saint Peter Released from Prison by A. Carracci]; [David M. Koetser Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published References“Catalogue of old and modern pictures and drawings” (auction catalogue) (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 6, 1949), lot 153, as Saint Peter Released from Prison by A. Carracci.

Universiteit te Gent, Gentse Bijdragen Tot de Kunstgeschiedenis, Deel 22, 1949-59 (Antwerpen: 1950), 260-285, illus.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 152, illus. (b-w).

"NCMA Paintings on Loan," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 13, no. 1 (October 1969), mentioned and illus. (b-w) unnumbered pages.

The Age of Louis XIII (exhibition catalogue) (Jacksonville, FL: Cummer Gallery of Art, 1969), cat. no. 27.

Richard E. Spear, Carvaggio and His Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971), cat. no. 81, illus. (b-w).

Benedict Nicolson, "Caravaggesques at Cleveland," Burlington Magazine (February 1972), 113 ff.

Benedict Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement (New York: Phaidon, 1979), listed 40, 244.

Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the 17th Century (London: 1985), 38-39, 207.

Benedict Nicolson, Carvaggism in Europe, 2nd ed., revised by Luisa Vertova (Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1989), vol. 1, listed 94; vol. 3, illus. (b-w) pl. 1629.

Dennis P. Weller, Saints and Sinners, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 219, illus. (b-w). (Catalogue only, not in show.)

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 53, illus. (color) 252.

Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, “Carvaggio and the Caravaggisti,” in The Burlington Magazine (November 2012) (exhibition review), mentioned 815.
Exhibition HistoryBaltimore, MD, The Walters Art Gallery, "French Painting of the 17th Century," March 28-June 11, 1961.

Jacksonville, FL, Cummer Gallery of Art, "The Age of Louis XIII," October 29-December 7, 1969; and St. Petersburg, FL, Museum of Fine Arts, January 5-February 8, 1970, cat. no. 27.

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, "Caravaggio and His Followers," October 27, 1971-January 2, 1972, cat. no. 81, illus. (b-w).

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