David Praised by the Israelite Women
Artist
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Dutch, 1588–1629
Date1623
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 32 3/16 × 41 1/2 in. (81.8 × 105.4 cm)
frame: 44 × 52 3/4 × 5 in. (111.8 × 134 × 12.7 cm)
frame: 44 × 52 3/4 × 5 in. (111.8 × 134 × 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Frame donated anonymously in honor of the Dutch Resistance to Nazi occupation and the Holocaust.
Object numberGL.60.17.66
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesF. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vol. 10., "L'Admiral - Lucas van Leyden" (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger), 78, 241-242.
Arthur von Schneider, Caravaggio und die Niederländer (Marburg, 1933), 43, illus. pl. 21b (as David vor den lobsingenden Frauen by Theodoor van Baburen).
Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Durlacher Gallery, 1946), no. 14 (as by Theodore van Baburen).
H. Pauwels, "Nieuwe toeschrijvingen bij het oeuvre van Hendrick ter Brugghen," Gentsche bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis 13 (1951), 154.
Roberto Longhi, "Appunti," Paragone 3, no. 33 (Settembre 1952), 55.
J. Richard Judson, Gerrit van Honthorst: A Discussion of His Position in Dutch Art (The Hague, 1956), no. 4. (Edition published in 1959 does not have pertinent information re: this painting on p. 85).
Benedict Nicolson, "The Rijksmuseum 'Incredulity' and Terbrugghen's Chronology," The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 637 (April 1956), 107, illus. (detail) 106.
Benedict Nicolson, "De Heilige Hieronymus van Hendrick Terbrugghen." Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 9, no. 3 (1958), 86, note 2.
Benedict Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen (London: Lund Humphries, 1958), cat. no. A50, illus. pl. 89 (as David Saluted by Women).
H. Gerson, "Review of Benedict Nicolson's Hendrick Terbrugghen," Kunstchronik 12, no. 11 (November 1959), 314, 318.
The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 134, illus. (b-w) 135.
Benedict Nicolson, "Second Thoughts about Terbrugghen," The Burlington Magazine 10, no. 692 (November 1960), 469.
J. Richard Judson, "Review of Benedict Nicolson's Hendrick Terbrugghen," Art Bulletin 43, no. 4 (December 1961), 347.
Leonard J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (Utrecht, 1962), 67 (no. 44), 94, 153.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58 (as David and the Singers).
Bucharest (Sibiu), The Brukenthal Museum Fine Arts Gallery, 1964 (Bucharest, Meridiane Publishing House, 1964), cat. no. 52, illus.
Hendrick Terbrugghen in America (exhibition catalogue) (Dayton: Dayton Art Institute, 1965), cat. no. 3, illus.
Wolfgang Stechow, "Terbrugghen in America," Art News 64, no. 6 (October 1965), 47-51, 61-62, illus. 46.
Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 24, illus. (b-w).
P. J. J. van Thiel, "De Aanbidding der koningen en ander vroegwerk von Hendrick ter Brugghen," Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 9, no. 3 (December 1971), 137-38, illus. 112.
Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977), 128-130, illus. cat. no. K1542, fig. 119.
Benedict Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement (New York: Phaidon, 1979), 98 (as David Saluted by Women).
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), illus. (b-w) 95.
Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), briefly discussed 5-6.
Saints and Heroes (exhibition brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987), discussed 20-21, illus. (b-w) 20, fig. 15.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 89.
Peter C. Sutton, et al, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (exhibition catalogue) (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992), 129 (as David Praised by Woman).
Chiyo Ishikawa, et al, A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), cat. no. 21, illus. (color) 151.
Allan Gurganus, "The Country Child, When Overpraised," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 13-17, illus. (color) 13, (color detail) 15. Reprinted in Southern Culture 3, no. 2 (Summer 1997), 26-31, illus. colorplate, (b-w) 26.
North Carolina Museum of Art 1998 Exhibitions (brochure), illus. (b-w and b-w detail).
Dennis Weller, entry for David Praised by the Israelite Women, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 101, illus. (color).
Dennis P. Weller, Sinners and Saints, Darkness & Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), cat. no. 10, illus. (color).
Five Hundred Self-Portraits (London and New York: Phaidon, 2000), illus. (color) 125 (paperback edition published 2004).
Dennis P. Weller, "Art in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (September/October 2002), illus. (color) 6.
Joanna Kikissis, "New respect for an old master," Raleigh: The News and Observer (October 13, 2002), mentioned 3G (as David with the Head of Goliath).
M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 289, no. 18 (May 14, 2003), discussed 2329, illus. (color) 2321, 2329, and cover.
Leonard J. Slatkes and Wayne Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen: Catalogue Raisonné (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007), cat. no. A5, also mentioned 22, 160, 194, 228, 280, illus. (color) 286 and (b-w) 306.
Jochen Sander, Bastian Eclercy, and Gabriel Dette, Caravaggio in Holland: Musik und Genre bie Caravaggio und den Utrechter Caravaggisten (exhibition catalogue) (Frankfurt: Städel Museum, 2009), cat. no. 18, illus. (color) 139.
Michael Fried, The Moment of Caravaggio [The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Bollingen Series XXXV: 51] (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), discussed 238-240, illus. (color) 240, fig. C.11.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 7, illus. (color) 44, also mentioned x.
Dennis P. Weller, entry for David Praised by the Israelite Women, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 210, illus. (color) 211.
David Franklin and Sebastian Schütze, Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011), mentioned and illus. (color) 287, fig. 87 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Liesbeth M. Helmus and Volker Manuth, Utrecht & le mouvement caravagesque international (Paris: Paris Tableau, 2014), mentioned 101.
Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2018), cat. no. 55, briefly discussed 226, illus. (color) 221.
Margit Kern, “Die Darstellung musizierender Gruppen und die Übertragung akustischer Sinneserfahrung ins Bildmedium,” in Die Musik in der Kultur des Barock, Bernhard Jahn, ed. (Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2019), 227, illus. (b-w) 226.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Durlacher Gallery, "Caravaggio and the Carvaggisti," March 4-March 30, 1946, no. 14.
Dayton, OH, Dayton Museum of Art, "Hendrick Terbrugghen in America," October 15-November 28, 1965; Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, December 19, 1965-January 30, 1966, cat. no. 3, illus.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, briefly discussed 5-6.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, "Saints and Heroes," November 14, 1987-July 24, 1988, 20-21, illus. (b-w) 20, fig. 15.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, 1994; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 22-August 14, 1994; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, September 15-November 20, 1994; San Franciso, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, December 17, 1994-March 4, 1995, cat. no. 21, illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers," September 27- December 13, 1998; Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Art Museum, January 29-April 18, 1999; Dayton, OH, The Dayton Art Institute, May 8-July 18, 1999, cat. no. 10, illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Biblical Paintings/Rembrandt Etchings," October 13, 2002-January 5, 2003.
Frankfurt, Germany, Städel Museum, "Caravaggio in Holland. Musik und Genre bei Caravaggio und den Utrechter Caravaggisten," April 1-July 26, 2009, cat. no. 18, illus. (color).
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, “Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe,” December 14, 2018–March 24, 2019; Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, April 23–July 21, 2019, cat. no. 55, illus. (color).
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