WORKSHOP OF DIRCK VAN BABUREN | YOUNG MAN SINGING

Private collection, England;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 1 February 1957, lot 75;

With Edward Speelman, London;

With Central Picture Galleries, New York, 1958;

From whom acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wulc collection, Rydal, PA, 1966;

Thence by descent to the present owner. 

B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, The Hague 1958, p. 64, under no. A27, and p. 68, under no. A32 (as copy of a lost Baburen);

B. Nicolson, "A Postscript to Baburen," in The Burlington Magazine vol. 104 (1962), p. 539 (as a copy of the prime version in Frankfurt);

L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595 - 1624); A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Ph.D. diss., Utrecht 1962, pp. 85, note 116, 94, 94 note 4;

L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen, c. 1595 - 1624); A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht 1965, p. 85 note 116, 94, 94 note 4, p. 119, under no. A14, 147;

L.J. Slatkes in Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, exhibition catalogue, Dayton/ Baltimore 1965, p. 17;

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford 1979, p. 18 (as a studio replica);

L.J. Slatkes, in George de la Tour and His World, exhibition catalogue, Washington 1996, p. 215, note 38, (as a workshop repetition);

L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen 1588 - 1629, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2007, p. 208, note 1, (as a workshop version);

W. Franits, The Paintings of Dirck van Baburen, ca. 1592/93 - 1624, Amsterdam 2013, p. 135, no. A24W1, reproduced plate 24a (as a workshop replica).

This is a workshop copy of Dirck van Baburen's painting of 1622 that is today in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.¹

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1. Oil on canvas, 71 by 58.8 cm., inv. no. 2242. See https://rkd.nl/explore/images/254757