Feigned Sculpted Bust of the Blessed Hieronymus Werdanus Set in a Feigned Stone Cartouche, Decorated with a Swag and Two Bunches of Flowers

Feigned Sculpted Bust of the Blessed Hieronymus Werdanus Set in a Feigned Stone Cartouche, Decorated with a Swag and Two Bunches of Flowers

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Bloemenkrans om een portretbuste van Hieronymus van Weert (Werdanus), martelaar van Gorkum. Maakt deel uit van een serie van 19 schilderijen met portretten van de martelaren van Gorkum, vervaardigd voor de voormalige Minderbroederskerk te Mechelen. Ontstaan vóór de zaligverklaring op 9 juli 1676.

• signature, centre, in the oval to the left of the bust: ‘DT·F.’ D and T in monogram
• coat of arms, centre, on the socle: De gueules à la croix d’argent, cantonné de quatre croisettes pattées du même
• inscription, centre, beneath the socle on the ledge: ‘B[EATUS]·Hieronymus WERDANUS’
• signature, bottom left: ‘F[RATER]·G[UALTERUS]·GYSAERTS·MIN[OR]·F[ECIT]’

• painter: Wouter Gysaerts
• painter: David Teniers (II)

1676 - before 1676-07

oil on canvas

• support: height 115.1 cm x width 78.7 cm
• outer size: depth 10 cm (support incl. frame)

• purchase 1884
• purchase 2016-02-16
• interne vervaardiging 1884
• interne vervaardiging 2016-02-16

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? Commissioned by friar Antoon (1648-84), David Teniers’s II son, for the Franciscan friary in Mechelen{J.B. Descamps, _La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois, avec des portraits_, 4 vols., Paris 1753-64, II, 1754, p. 158; for Teniers’s son Antoon, see P. Rombouts and T. van Lerius, _De Liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, ondere zinspreuk: ‘Wt Ionsten Versaemt’_, 2 vols., Antwerp/The Hague 1864-76 (reprint Amsterdam 1961), II, p. 385; Vlieghe in _Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek_, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 21- vols., Brussels 1964-, IV, p. 810; and S. Schoutens, _Kunstschilders beeldhouwers en bouwkundigen der minderbroedersorde in België_, Antwerp 1903, p. 13, note 1. Margret Klinge kindly provided his date of baptism, and his date of death (1684) in Mechelen; see also H. Vlieghe, _David Teniers (1610-1690): A Biography_, Turnhout 2011, p. 18. Antoon’s role in the commission is also repeated in the _Nieuwen Verlichter der Konst-Schilders, Vernisseurs, Vergulders en Marmelaers_, Ghent 1788, II, p. 243.} to be displayed as one in a series of nineteen on the pillars of its church as part of the feast of thanksgiving for the beatification of the martyrs of Gorcum, 9-16 July 1676;{‘De Minderbroeders…hadden hunne kercke seer verciert: aen de pilaren waeren gestelt de afbeldtsels van de xix. Martelaeren seer wel geschildert door David Teniers den jongen, omset met bloermen cransen door G.Gysaert… see [J.P.van Goethem],Twee hondert jaerigen jubel-galm opheldert door jouffrouw J.P.V.G…, 1772’, quoted in R. Tepe, _Oog in Oog met de Martelaren van Gorcum_ , exh. cat. Gorcum (Gorcums Museum) 2012, under no. 4. See also H. Vlieghe, _David Teniers (1610-1690): A Biography_, Turnhout 2011, p. 123, note 116.} the series was subsequently divided with the Franciscans in Leuven; the Mechelen friary was suppressed in 1796;{M. Verjans O.F.M., ‘Het Cultuurleven te Mechelen’, in R. Foncke, E. Buskens and L. Lebeer, _Mechelen de Heerlijke_, Mechelen 1947, pp. 633-51, p. 636; L. Godenne, _Malines jadis & aujourd’hui_, Malines 1908, p. 388.} perhaps sold by the Mechelen Franciscan friars, Mechelen (Laureys), 5 September 1811{S. Schoutens, _Kunstschilders beeldhouwers en bouwkundigen der minderbroedersorde in België_, Antwerp 1903, p. 13; H. Vlieghe, _David Teniers (1610-1690): A Biography_, Turnhout 2011, pp. 123-24, note 119; R. Tepe, _Oog in Oog met de Martelaren van Gorcum_, exh. cat. (Gorcum) Gorcums Museum 2012, under no. 4.} or in a sale by the Order, Mechelen, 5 October 1824;{S. Schoutens, _Kunstschilders beeldhouwers en bouwkundigen der minderbroedersorde in België_, Antwerp 1903, p. 13; H. Vlieghe, _David Teniers (1610-1690): A Biography_, Turnhout 2011, pp. 123-24, note 119; R. Tepe, _Oog in Oog met de Martelaren van Gorcum_, exh. cat. (Gorcum) Gorcums Museum 2012, under no. 4. Roy Tepe, in his email 28 October 2017, kindly drew attention to later sales of paintings from the series: Mechelen (Elst), 10 April 1837, nos. 141, 152, 272, 276, 309, and anonymous sale, London (Christie’s), 1 March 1839, no. 108 and from Belgium, Mlle. Dusart (†) sale, Mechelen (Le Roy), 6 June 1854, no. 133. These were of martyrs Petrus Ascanus and Nicasius Hezius respectively; the paintings were subsequently in sales at Christie’s in 1963 and Budapest in 2011, see below.}…; sale, Comte Andor de Festetics de Tolna (1843-1930, Szelestic castle, near Szombathely, Hungary), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 22 January 1884 _sqq_., no. 58, fl. 230, to the museum{NHA, ARS, Kop, inv. 39, pp. 342-43, no. 11 (3 March 1884); the lot was knocked down for fl. 200 to de Vries (whose name is inscribed on the reverse of the frame); information as to auction price from Roy Tepe, email 23 October 2017.}

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