A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning - Rubens Landscape Panels

Object details

TitleA View of Het Steen in the Early Morning

Technique and supportOil on panel

Dimensions131.2 x 229.2

Inventory numberNG66

Collection and provenance

CollectionNational Gallery, London

Provenance

Perhaps P. P. Rubens (†) sale, Antwerp, 1640 (135);
coll. Giacomino [= (?) Giacomo] Balbi, Genoa, by 1758;
sold by Costantino Balbi to Irvine and Arthur Champernowne, acting for and with Buchanan, 1802;
in England by April, 1803, when seen at Buchanan’s by Joseph Farington;
complete ownership assumed by Buchanan, by whom offered to the British Government and J. J. Angerstein;
sold to Lady Beaumont by 25 May, 1803 for £1,500, and given by her to Sir George Beaumont by 23 June, 1803;
seen by John Constable at Benjamin West’s in February 1804;
exh. B.I. 1815 (10) and 1823 (120);
presented by Sir George Beaumont to the British Museum for the proposed National Gallery, 1823;
transferred to the National Gallery, 1828.

Literature

DESCAMPS 1753, I, p. 304

SMITH 1830, II, pp. 214, 215, no. 767

WAAGEN 1837, I, p. 219

Waagen 1854, I, p. 351, 7

BÜRGER 1857, pp. 198-200

ROOSES 1890, IV, pp. 392, 392, no. 1204

ROOSES 1897, V, pp. 18, 28, 61, 95, 96

BURCKHARDT 1898, pp. 315, 316

MICHEL 1900, pp. 526-9, pl. 38

ROOSES 1903, pp. 203-9

ROOSES 1904, pp. 571-4, 577

ROSENBERG 1906, pp. 407, 485

DILLON 1909, pp. 63, 185, 196, pl. CCCCLX

OLDENBOURG 1918, p. 60

OLDENBOURG 1921, p. 4040

KIESER 1926, pp. 37, 45, n. 18

STERLING 1928, pp. 181, 187, 192, 195-99

HERRMANN 1936, pp. 14, 32, 38-40, 43, 48, 57, 58, 69, n. 23, 80, n. 125

EVERS 1942, pp. 384-6, 404, 405, figs. 227, 228

EVERS 1943, p. 82

GLÜCK 1940, pp. 39, 40, 44, 67, 68, no. 30

MACLAREN 1946,

SEILERN 1955, no. 63

HELD 1959, I, p. 147, no. 13

GERSON AND TER KUILE 1960, pp. 107, 108, 189, n. 151, fig. 93

MARTIN 1970, pp. 137-42, no. 66, Appendix I

ADLER 1982, pp. 160-2, no. 53, fig. 136

BROWN, REEVE AND WYLD 1982, pp. 27, 28-9, fig. 1

LIEDTKE 1992, p. 104

BROWN 1996, pp. 11, 12, 37, 59-77, 85, 90, 95, 96, 99, 100, 102, 103, 108, 109, 119, figs. 51, 58, 103

LIEDTKE 1997, pp. 54, 55

KIRBY 1999, p. 20

BROWN 2000, pp. 270, 271, 272, 273-4, fig. 4

KLEINERT 2014, pp. 23, 25, 37, 39, 47, 52f., 58, 105f., 113f., 122, 124, 160, 161, 169, pl. 22

BISACCA 2017, pp. 105-7, fig. 3

DAVIS 2020, pp. 6, 7, 32, 43, 51-6, 60, 61, 62-3, 65-69, 80, 83-90, fig. 3.3

GRUBER AND OBERTHALER 2020, pp. 17, 89, figs. 1, 43

AVERY-QUASH AND DAVIS 2023, pp. 70-79, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, fig. 1

KLEINERT 2023, pp. 110, 111, 115, 116, 122, 123, 124, fig. 3

WATTEEUW 2023, pp. 144, 151, fig. 8

Consult the bibliography.

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