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Bacchus and Bacchantes
Caesar van Everdingen (Dutch, 1616/7–1678)
1655-1660
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
45.1 x 37.5 cm (17 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Framed: 63.5 x 56.2 x 6 cm (25 x 22 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Framed: 63.5 x 56.2 x 6 cm (25 x 22 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2023.485.2
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Inscriptionstraces of monogram in the lower left corner: CvE
ProvenanceMaria van der Graas (b. 1725 - d. 1780), Haarlem; September 5, 1780, Graas sale, Vincent van der Vinne, Haarlem, lot 31 to Jan Wubbels (b. about 1728 - d. 1791) [see note 1]; July 16, 1792, Wubbels sale, Philippus van der Schley, Amsterdam, lot 541 [see note 2]. April 7, 1794, anonymous sale, Philippus van der Schley, Amsterdam, lot 61, sold to Louis Bernard Coclers (b. 1740 - d. 1817), Amsterdam [see note 3]. Until 2011, private collection, Helsinki. 2011, sold by Otto Naumann Ltd., New York and Johnny van Haeften, London to Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, Naples, FL [see note 4]; 2023, gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 2023)
NOTES:
[1] Sold as a pair with lot 30, MFA loan no. L-R 56.2018, for fl. 60.
[2] Sold as a pair, with lot 540, MFA loan no. L-R 56.2018, both attributed to the manner of Gerard de Lairesse.
[3] Sold as a pair with lot 60, MFA loan no. L-R 56.2018, both attributed to C. van Everdingen.
[4] Provenance after 1794 is according Frederik J. Duparc, Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 50.
NOTES:
[1] Sold as a pair with lot 30, MFA loan no. L-R 56.2018, for fl. 60.
[2] Sold as a pair, with lot 540, MFA loan no. L-R 56.2018, both attributed to the manner of Gerard de Lairesse.
[3] Sold as a pair with lot 60, MFA loan no. L-R 56.2018, both attributed to C. van Everdingen.
[4] Provenance after 1794 is according Frederik J. Duparc, Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 50.