ANTOON van DYCK Portrait de Cornelis van der Geest détail -
CORNELIS de WAEL
Le retour du Fils Prodigue
dessin à la plume -
STUDIES
AND RESEARCH
The Jean-Paul Meulemeester Gallery does researches systematically on
works acquired, that belong to individuals or Museums
These researches often clear on very detailed studies that can be a useful contribution in
art history Thus, the discovery of a portrait of the Flemish school of the XVIIth century,
belonging to a private collection, painted in grisaille, was the opportunity of a deepened
research in the archives of the city of Antwerp. In fact, this work was listed there
clearly and described under the name of Antoon van Dyck in two inventories of Alexander
Voet, a 17th century engraver and collector ! Thanks to this discovery, one can
reconstitute the pédigrée until this day and proved that this grisaille was the portrait
of the famous collector Cornelis van der Geest and the preparatory skech for the Paulus
Pontius'engraving. It was also the opportunity to put the question so controversial of
grisailles painted by this artist.
The survey of a rare drawing by Cornelis de Wael, a remarkable
Flemish artist, intimate friend of A.van Dyck and who lived in Genova, was the starting
point of a research on his work and to make the inventory of it.
Inventories of Antwerp Collectors and Amateurs of the
17th.century, preserved in the Archives of the City of Antwerp, constitute an
important source for the art history.
We translated some Inventories from the old
Flemish in French and tempted to put in interrelationship works described with those that
are known to us today in the private and public collections.
The Flemish artist of the 17th.centtury, David Teniers II the Younger is well known of a
large public. Yet, one will note that, put apart of numerous different studies, it only
exists little of monographs nor no recent Catalogue Raisonné dedicated to this
artist
David Teniers II the Younger -
The Ball Room
A Family Party (detail) Provenance : Duc and Duchess de Berry
- oil on panel - dated 1647
Our personal contribution consisted in the first publication of the " Genealogy of the Taisnier'Family alias Teniers " as well as of a " Research on Familie's Portraits in the work of David Teniers II the Younger ". It has been completed by a " Critical Analysis of some works by David Teniers II the Younger exhibited in the Royal Museum of Fine arts of Antwerp in 1991"
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