Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Matthias Jansz. van den Bergh (Ypres circa 1615-1687 Alkmaar)
Lot 138

Matthias Jansz. van den Bergh (Ypres circa 1615-1687 Alkmaar)

Copy of a self portrait by Peter Paul Rubens

Closed13 May 2015

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EUR 875

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Matthias Jansz. van den Bergh (Ypres circa 1615-1687 Alkmaar)
Copy of a self portrait by Peter Paul Rubens
inscribed 'P Paulus Rubenius'
pen and brown ink, brown ink framing lines
19.7 x 14.3 cm.

Georg Rueter (1875-1966); through, or from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena in September 1928 for 15 guilders (Inventory book: '513. t. M. v. d. Bergh Rubens [...] uit verz. groningen').

Specialist note

Van den Bergh made this quite free copy after the famous self-portrait by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) which is now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (see H. Vlieghe, Rubens Portraits of identified sitters painted in Antwerp, New York, 1987, no. 135). Another closely comparable drawing in which van den Bergh copied A smiling young man (Titus) by Rembrandt (1606-1669) is in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (see E. van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings: Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited: A Complete Survey, Dordrecht, 2015, IV, p. 664, under no. 280, fig. 2).