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Virgin and Child with Five Saints
Virgin and Child with Five Saints

Virgin and Child with Five Saints

ArtistWorkshop or Circle of Anthony van Dyck Flemish, 1599–1641, active in Great Britain
Datecirca 1627–1630
MediumOil on cradled oak panel
Dimensions44 3/8 x 37 1/2 in. (112.7 x 95.3 cm)
Frame: 55 3/8 x 50 1/4 in. (140.7 x 127.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of J. B. Ivey and Company in memory of J. B. Ivey
Object numberGL.56.36.1
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ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1627–1630. Possibly Thomas Ivers Haring, before 1809; by descent to his great-grandniece, Mrs. Chandor Dickinson, New York; probably Dr. S. F. Aram, New York, 1930s. Heinemann collection, Los Angeles, before 1946; Mr. R. Dispeker, Los Angeles, by 1946. [Hans Schaeffer Gallery, New York]; George M. Ivey, Charlotte, NC; given to NCMA, 1956. [1]

[1] Purchased by George M. Ivey, Charlotte, NC, on behalf of J. B. Ivey and Company as intended gift to the NCMA.
Published ReferencesGustav Glück, ed., Van Dyck, Des Meisters Gemälde, Klassiker der Kunst, Vol. 13, 2nd ed. (New York: F. Kleinberger, 1931), 525, illus. 61. W. R. Valentiner, Loan Exhibition of Forty-Three Paintings by Rubens and Twenty-Five Paintings by Van Dyck (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1946), cat. no. 46, illus. (b-w). Leo Van Puyvelde, Van Dyck (Brussels: Elsevier, 1950), 128-29. Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), Illus. advert. for Schaeffer Galleries. W. R. Valentiner, "In the Sphere of Rubens," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Spring 1957), discussed 6-8; listed (with references) in "Registrar's Report of New Acquisitions," 25, illus. (b-w) fig. 3. Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 54, illus. (b-w) 75, fig. 54. Schaffer Galleries Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1936-1961 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Schaeffer Galleries, 1961), cat. no. 17, illus. (b-w). The Mutualizer 17 (December 1962), illus. cover (source unknown). Horst Vey, Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks (Brüssel: Arcade, 1967), 122, 170. Christopher Brown, The Drawings of Anthony van Dyck (New York: The Pierpont Library, 1991), 148, illus. fig. 2. Wolfgang Heinrich Savelsberg, Die Darstellung des H1. Fanziskus von Assisi: In der Flämischen Malerei und Graphik des Späten 16. und des 17. Jahrhunderts (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 1992), cat. no. 35, illus. 188. Eleanor H. Gustafson, "Museum accessions," Antiques (April 2004), mentioned 28. Susan J. Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar, and Horst Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings (New Haven and London: Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2004), cat. no. I.8, illus. (b-w). Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 51, illus. (color) 244, also mentioned xii. Dennis P. Weller, “Early arrivals in America: paintings attributed to Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck,” in The Burlington Magazine (February 2016), 110–112, illus. (color) 112, fig. 38.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum, "Loan Exhibition of Forty-Three Paintings by Rubens and Twenty-Five Paintings by Van Dyck," November 19-December 22, 1946, cat. no. 46, illus. (b-w). Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 54, illus. (b-w). New York, NY, Schaeffer Galleries, "Schaeffer Galleries Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1936-1961," cat. no. 17, illus. (b-w). Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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