A Bishop Kneeling before Saint Peter

Anonymous (follower of Anthonie van Dyck)

Item information

A Bishop Kneeling before Saint Peter

2757 (OK)
Paintings
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Reconstruction of provenance history

before 1936-11-09 < > ?
Dr. Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel, Berlin

? < > 1927
: C.A. de Burlet (art dealer), Berlin
:
: Archive Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Collection Ludwig Burchard, Rubenianum, Antwerp

? < > 1936-02-29
: Unknown (collection), Berlin
:
: Auction cat. Mandelbaum & Kronthal, Berlin, 29 February 1936, no. 189, p. 10 (ill.); Die Weltkunst, 23-02-1936 (ill.); Collection Ludwig Burchard, Rubenianum, Antwerp

29-2-1936
: Mandelbaum & Kronthal (auction), Berlin
:
: Auction cat. Mandelbaum & Kronthal, Berlin, 29 February 1936, no. 189, p. 10 (ill.); Die Weltkunst, 23-02-1936 (ill.); Collection Ludwig Burchard, Rubenianum, Antwerp

vóór 1936-11-09 < > ?
: Dr. Lothar Brieger - Wasservogel, Berlijn [nl]
:
: Archief Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Collectie Ludwig Burchard, Rubenianum, Antwerpen [nl]

2-12-1955
: Galerie Charpentier (auction), Paris
:
: Auction cat. Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 2 December 1955, no. 25; Archive Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

24-6-1968
: Palais Galliéra (auction), Paris
:
: Auction cat. Palais Galliéra, Paris, 24 June 1968, no. 26 (ill.); Archive Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

1968 < > 1969
: P.D. Colnaghi & Co, Ltd. (art dealer), London
:
: Archive Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

1969 < > heden
: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (acquired by the municipality of Rotterdam)
:
: Archive Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Current restitution status

No requests

Research findings

It is not known from which collection this painting was auctioned during the estate sale at Mandelbaum & Kronthal and under what circumstances this auction took place. It is also not known when the painting left the collection of the German-Jewish art historian and writer Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel, and under what circumstances this happened.

This painting was auctioned in 1936 as Der thronende St. Marcus […] by Anthonie van Dyck from an unknown collection of a doctor and collector at an estate sale at Mandelbaum & Kronthal in Berlin. Furthermore, it is also not known when this painting left the collection of Lothar Brieger, who very likely acquired it at or just after the aforementioned auction. Brieger fled from Berlin in 1938 to Shanghai. He returned to Berlin for an academic position in 1947, but passed away in 1949. It is not known who sold it through Galerie Charpentier at the auction in 1955.