VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE. 1594-1632

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Oil on canvas. 119 X 172 cm. Inv. No 1489 Other versions of the composition are in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, in the Frascione Collection, France, and in the Certosa di S. Margarita, Naples. The picture was engraved with a burin by F. Basan, etched in black by J. Walker, with a needle by J. Sanders. Provenance: until 1769 The H. Briihl Collection, Dresden; 1769—1930 The Hermitage, St Petersburg — Leningrad; since 1930 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1922—25 Petrograd; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 24; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 11; 1965 Bordeaux,

Cat. 13; 1965—66 Paris, Cat. 12; 1973 Leningrad, Cat. 10 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 15; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 22; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 30; Labensky 1805, vol. 2, pp. 17—19, ill.; C. Landon, Choix de tableaux et statues des plus celebres musees, vol. 3, Paris, 1819, No 33; Notice sur 1'Ermitage 1828, pp. 66, 142; Dussieux 1856, p. 442; Cat. Ermitage 1863, No 1489; Waagen 1864, p. 303; Сомов 1900, No 1489; Бенуа 1912, p. 141; Ernst 1928, p. 164; Reau 1929, No 357; Sterling 1957, p. 16, ill. 4; R. Longhi, "A propos de Valentin", La Revue des Arts, 1958, 2, p. 61; B. Nicolson, "Some Northern Caravaggesques in Russia", The Burlington Magazine, 1965, August, p. 426, ill.; ГМИИ 1966, No 52

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