ANTHONY VAN DYCK
79 x 53 1/2 in.
Provenance
Miguel de Neve (1589–1649), Seville, by 1637;
Endowed to his daughter, Luisa Francisca de Neve, by use of a mayorazgo dated to that same year;
By marriage to her husband, Juan Arias de Saavedra (1621–87), I Marqués de Moscoso, Seville;
By descent to Joaquín Árias de Saavedra y Santa Cruz, V Marqués de Moscoso, XIII Conde de Castellar, Seville, as witnessed by the papal indulgence granted to him by the Archbishop of Seville in January 1774;
By direct descent to José Joaquín Arias de Saavedra y Araoz (1807–79), VII Marqués de Moscoso, Seville;
Thence by descent.
Exhibitions
Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez (Parque del Retiro), Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577–1640): exposición homenaje, December 1977–March 1978, no. 89 (as Peter Paul Rubens).
Literature
M. Díaz Padrón, “Dos nuevas pinturas de Rubens y Van Dyck identificadas en España: ‘San Pedro’ y una segunda replica de la ‘Adúltera’,” in Archivo Espanol de Arte, XLV, no. 180, 1972, pp. 336-37, plate 1, fig. 1, reproduced in black and white (as Peter Paul Rubens);
M. Díaz Padrón (ed), Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577–1640): exposicion homenaje, exh. catalogue, Madrid 1977, p. 104, cat. no. 89,
reproduced in black and white on p. 232 (as Peter Paul Rubens).