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A Monk Distributing Soup

17th Century
17th Century
28 1/2 x 38 in. (72.4 x 96.5 cm)

Dirk (Theodor) Helmbreker, Dutch/Flemish, (1633–1696)

Object Type: PAINTINGS
Creation Place: Europe
Medium and Support: Oil
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Benjamin D. Bernstein and the Art Angels
Accession Number: 00-P-462
Current Location: Art Museum : 17 C Gallery

Bibliography


- Hanneke van Asperen, “Virtue and Alms. Charity as a Pauper in Cornelis de Man’s Allegory of the Virtuous Life,” Oud Holland 128, no. 4 (2015): 199-211.

- Filippo Baldinucci, Notizie dei professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le belle arti di pittura, scultura e architettura, lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca e gotica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all'antica loro perfezione (Florence: V. Batello and Company, 1847), p. 509.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Basilius von Ramdohr, and Brabek family, Beschreibung der Gemälde-Galerie des Freiherrn von Brabek zu Hildesheim, mit kritischen Bemerkungen und einer Abhandlung über die Kunst das Schöne in den Gemälden de Niederländischen Schule zu sehe (Hannover: Verlage der Helwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1792), p. 61, no. 98.

- G, Briganti, L. Trezzani, L. Laureati, The Bamboccianti, The painters of everyday life in seventeenth century Rome, Rome 1983, pp. 342, 344note 24, and 346, no. 16.4 (color ill.).

- J. B. Deschamps, La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois avec des Portraits Gravés en Taille-Douce, une indication de leurs principaux Ouvrages, & des Réflexions sur leurs différentes manieres, vol. 2 (Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1754), p. 341, describes monk as “a “Franciscan,”

- Gerard Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen Zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. Vol. II (“s Gravenhage: Pieter Gerard van Baalen, 1752), p. 132, lot 41.

- Arnold Houbraken, De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen, vol. 2 ( ‘s Gravenhage: Swart, Boucquet, and Gaillard, 1718-1721 [facsimilie reprint: Amsterdam: B. M. Israel, 1978], p. 108-109, describes this painting in detail, including that the monk is “a Franciscan” and notes it is in the collection of Pieter de Klok, and provides the date of its creation as 1681.

- G. I. Hoogewerff, “ Theodore Helmbreker, Schilder van Haarlem (1633-1696),” Oud Holland 31 (1913): pp. 35-37 and 57-58.

- Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), image no. 35025 (color ill.), as “attributed to” Dirck Helmbreeker with the source of the attribution listed as Nolfo di Carpegna (1964?).

- Luigi Salerno, Pittori di paesaggio del seicento a Roma - Landscape painters of the seventeenth century in Rome (Rome: Ugo Bozzi, 1977-1978), 866 and 867 fig. 160.1 (B&W ill.).

- Caroline P. Wistar, La Salle University Art Museum, Guide to the Collection (Philadelphia: La Salle University Art Museum, 2002), p. 30 (color ill.).

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