Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 Siegen - 1640 Antwerpen, und Werkstatt

Peter Paul Rubens,
1577 Siegen - 1640 Antwerp, and workshop

CHRIST AND SAINT JOHN AS YOUTHS

Oil on canvas. Relined.
125 x 158 cm.
Stretcher with numbers and label on the reverse.

Accompanied by an original report by Professor Julius S. Held, 12 March 1982, a copy of a technical report by Professor Dr. Franz Mairinger, Vienna, 8 November 1991, and a certificate of authenticity of the present painting by Hugues Le Grand, Saint-Germain-de-Confolens, n.d., who fully recognizes Rubens as the creator of the painting on offer for sale in this lot and a confirmation of provenance by Princess M. Sayn-Wittgenstein, Munich, 7 January 1994.

Provenance:
Estate of Russian Tsars.
Through marriage of a Wittelsbach heiress into the Russian Tsarist family, the present work came into the art collection of Seehof Castle.
Baron Franz Joseph von Zandt collection, Seehof Castle near Bamberg, 1951 sold to:
Art collector, Switzerland.
Tiberius Auction, Vienna, 5 July 2022, lot 9.

Literature:
cf. M. Rooses, L’oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, Antwerp 1886, p. 250f.
cf. W.L. Crowdy, A Connoisseur’s Notebook, in: The Playgoer and Society, nos. 7-12, London 1910.
cf. Erik Larsen, Seventeenth Century Flemish Painting, Freren 1985.
cf. Michael Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo completo, Milan 1989.