Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars)
The Adoration of the Magi oil on panel 16.1 x 24.4cm (6 5/16 x 9 5/8in). unframed
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£1,875
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Footnotes
PROVENANCE: The Sadolin Collection, Sadolin Castle, Denmark With Lasson Gallery, London, 1965 (as by Sir Anthony van Dyck) Where purchased by the present owner
ILLUSTRATED: The Burlington Magazine, no. 750 vol. 107, September 1965
The present painting follows the composition of The Adoration of the Magi in the Kunsthaus, Zürich, which Sir Oliver Millar believed to be a studio work. A further variant of the same composition is in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London (see: H. Vey et .al., Van Dyck: a complete catalogue of the paintings (New Haven, 2004), p. 257, cat. no. III.16, ill.)