The Crucified Christ with Little Angels collecting his Blood (after Van Dyck)
after Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1662 - 1857
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1397 x 940 mm (55 x 37 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210327
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Crucified Christ with little Angels Collecting his Blood (after Van Dyck), after Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696). The prime version of this picture by Anthony Van Dyck would appear to be the painting in the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, once owned by the abbé Scaglia and possibly Sir Peter Lely and as well as the one recorded in the chapel of Queen Catherine of Braganza in London. There is another, painted by Jacob Huysmans after he arrived in England in 1662, in Hatfield House.
Provenance
Presented to Oxburgh by the Reverend William Allen, Rector of Oxburgh, July 18th 1857; in the nineteenth-century picture list; 1913 list (102); Oxburgh Hall house sale, second day, 1st November 1951, lot 724, purchased for £14 by Father Charles Barrand, the Vicar of Holy Cross, Blackpool; purchased by the National Trust from the Holy Cross, Blackpool, 1998.
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Inscribed lower right 102. Label on stretcher - 'This picture of the Crucifixion by (blank) was presented to the House of Oxburgh by the Rev William Allen, Rector of Oxburgh, one of my Father's most valued Friends - Henry Bedingfeld, July 18th 1857'.
Makers and roles
after Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist