Saint Ives of Treguier, Patron of Lawyers, Defender of Widows and Orphans

between 1615 and 1616

Peter Paul Rubens Flemish, 1577-1640

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Saint Ives of Treguier, Patron of Lawyers, Defender of Widows and Orphans

Artwork Date between 1615 and 1616

Artist Peter Paul Rubens

Life Dates 1577-1640

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 113 × 87 inches (287 × 221 cm) Framed: 125 × 99 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches (3 m 17.5 × 253.4 × 14 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund and the Estate of Feodosy Kogut

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 64.459

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Provenance

Saint Peter's Church (Louvain, Belgium) (?);
Saint Michael Church, College of Jesuits (Louvain, Belgium);
May 12, 1777, sold in (Brussels, Belgium) auction "Tableaux déposés au Collège de Bruxelles ..." lot 1;
1777, purchased by (M. de Loose, probably as agent of J.J. Bertels, Brussels, Belgium);
May 31, 1787, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Imperial Collection of J.-J. Bertels, lot 75 [withdrawn];
April 21, 1788, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 222 [withdrawn];
February 3, 1789, sold in (Paris, France) auction J.-J. Bertels, lot 15 [withdrawn];
April 6, 1825, sold in (Paris, France) auction Didot, lot 68 [withdrawn]
May 6-8, 1828, sold in (Paris, France) auction Didot, lot 93 [withdrawn];
1828, purchased by Henry;
August 20-21, 1932, sold in (Paris, France) lot 56;
1932, purchased by Marquis Hippolyte de Gonvello (Château de Kerlévénan, Sarzeau, Morbihan, Brittany, France);
until before 1960, by descent to Marquis Renaud de Gonvello;
acquired by (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, New York, USA, jointly with Frederick Mont, dealer, from the Marquis Renaud de Gonvello);
1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Mensaert, G.P. Le peintre amateur. Brussels, 1763, vol. I, pp. 276-277.

Descamps, J.B. Voyage pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant. Paris, 1769, p. 107.

Michel, J.F.M. Histoire de la Vie de P.P. Rubens. Brussels, 1771, pp. 193-194.

Smith, J. A Catalogue Raisonné of tahe Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, Supplement, vol. IX. London, 1842, p. 261, no. 73.

Rooses, M. L'Oeuvre de P. P. Rubens, vol. 2. Antwerp, 1888, pp. 308-309.

"Entering Public Domain." Art News 63, no. 6 (1964): pp. 28-29.

Held, J.S., "Rubens' St. Ives." Bulletin of the DIA 43, nos. 3/4 (1964): pp. 47-52 (ill.).

Detroit Institute of Arts Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 98.

Antiques Show Catalogue. Exh. cat., Liggett University. Detroit, 1977, pp. 87-88 (ill.).

Homage to Rubens. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1978, no. 3.

Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, the Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 85-87 (ill.).

Vlieghe, H. Saints II, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard--Part VIII. New York, 1973, pp. 95-97, cat. 119 (fig. 63).

Jaffé, M. Rubens catalogo completo. Milan, 1989, p. 234, no. 464 (ill.). [as. ca. 1617].

Bauman, G.C. and W. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 360, no. 396 (ill.).

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Peter Paul Rubens, Saint Ives of Treguier, Patron of Lawyers, Defender of Widows and Orphans, between 1615 and 1616, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund and the Estate of Feodosy Kogut, 64.459.