Malines 1616 – Malines 1663
A ‘Jansenist’ Cristo Vivo
Signed with monogram ‘VD’ under the right foot
Boxwood | Carved in full round | On later ebony base
H. 40 cm. (excl. base)
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PROVENANCE
Private collection | Belgium
REFERENCE LITERATURE
Nieuwdorp, H. (1977). ‘Jan III Van Doorne’, In: De beeldhouwkunst in de eeuw van Rubens in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden en het prinsbisdom Luik. Brussels: KMKG, pp. 243-244;
Scholten, F. (2009). ‘Acquisitions. 4. Jan III van Doorne (1616-1663). Holy Family’. In: The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 57(4), pp. 347-349
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CATALOGUE NOTE
We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Frits T. Scholten, Head of Department of Sculpture at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and professor of the History of Western Sculpture at the University of Amsterdam and to Dr. Emile van Binnebeke, Curator of European Sculpture at the Royal Museum for Art and History, Brussels, for endorsing the authorship by Jan van Doorne III.