Dirck van Baburen

Prometheus Chained by Vulcan



Dirck van Baburen - Prometheus Chained by Vulcan



Dirck van Baburen
Prometheus Chained by Vulcan
1623
201 x 182 cm
Oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Pieter J.J. van Thiel, C.J. de Bruyn Kops, Jola Cleveringa, Wouter Kloek, Annemarie Vels Heijn, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Maarssen, 1976, p. 92
Jonathan Bikker (ed.), Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007, nr. 14

Literature
Gregor J.M. Weber, Rembrandt im Kontrast, München, Kassel, 2005, fig. 4
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 360


Exhibitions

2018 Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe, Nr. 54
2006 Rembrandt Caravaggio, Nr. 4

Provenance

sale Osaak van den Blooken (1653-1706), Amsterdam May 11, 1707
?sale Joan de Vries (Amsterdam), The Hague (N. van Wouw), October 13, 1738, as Honthorst
sale Hugo Franz Karl (1701-79), Graf von und zu Eltz, Mainz (auction house not known), May 17, 1785, no. 717, to Winterstein
collection Scholl, Minz, 1820
donated to the museum by Dr J. von Loehr, German consul in Cairo, 1893
on loan to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1924-42
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External links

RKD 981
Rijksmuseum Accession number SK-A-1606

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