Landscape with the baptism of the eunuch, Herman van Swanevelt, 1630 - 1639

Identification

Title(s)

Landscape with the baptism of the eunuch

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4713

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘H. Swanevelt Roma 163..’

Description

Landschap met de doop van de kamerling. Heuvellandschap met door bomen begroeide rotsen bij een rivier of meertje. De apostel Philippus doopt de kamerling in water van de rivier. Links staat de rijtuig en kijken de andere begeleiders toe.

Creation

Artist

painter: Herman van Swanevelt

Place

Rome

Dating

1630 - 1639

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

height 98.1 cm × width 130.2 cm × thickness 3.7 cm
depth 7.1 cm

Subject

What

Philip baptizes the Eunuch

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Apr-1979

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

… ; from the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi, London, fl. 38,396.50, to the museum, 1979

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

La Galleria Doria, Giorgio Torselli, p. 184-196
Black is beautiful : Rubens tot Dumas, Ellen Ombre, Esther Schreuder, p. 187-188, cat.nr. 19
Black is beautiful : Rubens to Dumas, p. 187-188, cat.nr. 19
Het zuiden tegemoet : de landschappen van Herman van Swanevelt 1603-1655, Albert Blankert, Florence de Graaf, p. 37, afb. 19
Pieter Lastman : in Rembrandts Schatten?, Christian Tico Seifert, Martina Sitt, Adriaan E. Waiboer, p. 56-57
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 86
Studien zu Herman van Swanevelt : Zeichnungen zu Fresken und Gemälden
Herman van Swanevelt and his Prints
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 190, afb. 3
M. Szanto, 'The fortunes of a northern artist in seventeenth-century Paris : the forgotten years of Herman van Swanevelt', The Burlington Magazine 114 (2003), p. 199-205.
S. Russell, 'A drawing by Herman van Swanevelt for a lost fresco in S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome', The Burlington Magazine 143 (2001), nr. 1176, p. 132-137.
S. Russell, 'Frescoes by Herman van Swanevelt in Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona', The Burlington Magazine 139 (1997), nr. 1128, p. 171-177.
M.R. Waddingham, 'Herman van Swanevelt in Rome', Paragone 11 (1960), p. 37-50.

Persistent URL

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