
The Denial of Saint Peter
Hendrick Terbrugghen · c. 1626
Provenance
Ownership history
- Reedtz-Thott collection, Guanø Castle near Næstved, Denmark, by ca. 1750 [according to letter from Baron Otto Reedtz-Thott dated July 26, 2004 in curatorial file]; Baron Kjeld Thor Tage Otto Reedtz -Thott (died 1923), 2nd Baron Guanø, Guanø Castle, Denmark by at least 1914; by decent to Baron Axel Reedtz-Thott, Guanø Castle, Denmark; sold by him to a London dealer in the late 1960’s [according to the letter from his son, Baron Otto Reedtz-Thott, cited above]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1968; sold to the Art Institute in 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, September 27-December 13, 1998, pp. 107-110, cat. 14, cat. by Denis P. Weller et al.; traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, January 29-April 18, 1999, and Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, May 8-July 18, 1999.
Literature
Published references
- Julius Lange, Baroniet Gaunos Malerisamling, Gavnø, 1876, no. 81.
- Karl Madsen and Otto Andrup, Fortegnelse over to hundrede af Baroniet Gaunos malerier af aeldre malere samt over dets portraetsamling, Copenhagen, 1914, p. 10, no. 12
- Karl Madsen, “Malerisamlingen paa Gaunø,” Kunstmuseets Aarsskrift 4 (1917), pp. 56-57.
- Hans Wentzel, “Unbekannte Werke von Terbrugghen in Dänemark und Schweden,” Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim 4 (January 1954), pp. 121 (ill.), 123.
- Benedict Nicolson, “The Rijksmuseum ‘Incredulity’ and Terbrugghen’s Chronology,” Burlington Magazine 98 (1956), pp. 109, 110.
- Benedict Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London, 1958, pp. 5, 16, 18-19, 66-67, no. A 30, pl. 73.
- J. Richard Judson, Gerrit van Honthorst: A Discussion of his Position in Dutch Art, The Hague, 1959, p. 70.
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1968-69, pp. 1, 6, 14, 17, front cover.
- Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago, November 1969, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 8, 9 (ill.).
- “Art Across America,” Apollo, 91 (1970), p. 245, fig. 8.
- “La chronique des arts” supplement to Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6e pér., 75 (February, 1970), p. 59, fig. 278.
- Anna Ottani Cavina, “La Tour all’Orangerie e il suo primo tempo Caravaggesco,” Paragone, 23, no. 273 (1972), p. 11, fig. 8.
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