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Lumen Portengen
Utrecht 1608 - 1649
The Concert.
Oil on canvas, 138 x 178 cm
Signed in full top right: L.Portengen
Provenance
Collection Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 1912;
Cesare Olschki Collection, Pisa, 1966;
Sale Christie’s London, 14 April 1978, lot 12;
Sale Sotheby’s London, 16 June 1980, lot 166;
Sale Paris, Me Laurin, 25 March 1982, lot 60;
Private Collection, France.
E. Rosenthal, “Ein Bild des Utrechter Malers Luemen van Portengen”, Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, 1912, vol. V, pp. 378-380 and pl. 83;
A.Von Schneider, Caravaggio und die Niederlander, 1933, pp.83-84, no. 138;
W.Van Watering, Oude Holland, 1967, vol. LXXXII, pp. 148, 152, pl. 8;
B.Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin, 1989, vol. I, pl. 156; vol. III, pl. 1358.
Additionnal Information
*We are grateful to Tommaso Borgogelli for including our painting in his forthcoming article "For a revaluation of Lumen Portengen" and for dating this painting to the 1630's when Portengen spent 1.5 years in Rome.
