Currently not on view
The Prophet Elijah,
17th century
Hendrick de Somer, Flemish, 1602–after 1655
formerly attributed to Hendrick de Somer, Flemish, 1602–after 1655
formerly attributed to Hendrick de Somer, Flemish, 1602–after 1655
y1987-44
Information
Title
The Prophet Elijah
Dates
17th century
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
99.3 x 74 cm. (39 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
frame: 119.4 × 92.7 × 7.6 cm (47 × 36 1/2 × 3 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1987-44
Culture
Type
Subject
Ehrich Galleries, NY; museum purchase with The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (1921, accession no. 21.31 (?); sold 1956 to Victor Spark, NY. [Stanley Moss and Co., Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY]; 1987 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.
formerly attributed to Hendrick de Somer, Flemish, 1602–after 1655
- "Early Spanish Painting," Bulletin - Minneapolis Institute of Arts 10, no. 5 (May, 1921): 34-36, (illus.+cover)., cover+34-36
- Delphine Fitz-Darby, "Some cases of mistaken identity: a study of Ribera's hermits in American museums," Art in America 30 (1942): p. 40-51., pp. 46-47
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Exhibition of favorite Italian and Spanish masters: October 24-November 18, (Winnipeg, Canada: Winnipeg Art Gallery Association, 1951).
, pp. 9, 19 - Juan Antonio Gaya Nuno, La pintura española fuera de España; historia y catálogo, (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1958)., no. 2355
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Craig McFayden Felton, Jusepe de Ribera: a catalogue raisonné, Diss. University of Pittsburgh, (1971).
, p. 432, no. X-44 - Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Nicola Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera (Milan: Rizzoli, 1978), pp. 141-142
- Clovis Whitfield and Jane Martineau (eds.), Painting in Naples 1606-1675: From Caravaggio to Giordano (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1982), p. 230
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1987", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 47, no. 1 (1988): p. 30-54., p. 47
- Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts (Mar., 1989)., p. 31; fig. 167
- Nicola Spinosa, "Aggiunte a Hendrick van Somer, 'alias' Enrico Fiammingo" in Napoli, l'Europa: ricerche di storia dell'arte in onore di Ferdinando Bologna, ed. Francesco Abbate and Fiorella Sricchia Santoro (Catanzaro: Meridiana Libri, 1995), pp. 223-230 (p. 229)
- Giuseppe Porzio, "Hendrick de Somer, un fiammingo a Napoli tra Ribera e Stom" in Maestri d'Olanda e di Fiandra nei mari del Sud: La pittura olandese e fiamminga nella collezione di Camillo d'Errico, ed. Mauro Vincenzo Fontana (Foggia: Claudio Grenzi editore, 2018), pp. 39, 41 (Fig. 3)
