Ecole de Utrecht, XVIIe siècle
Reniement de Pierre
huile sur toile

oil on canvas
168.7 x 231.8cm (66 7/16 x 91 1/4in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Proprietà di Donna Marcella Traballesi, Nobili Della Scala by whom offered
Sale, Christie's, Florence, Palazzo della Stufa, 3-4 October 1995, lot 325
Private Collection, Italy, 1997 (according to Literature)
Private Collection, Italy

Literature
B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London, 1958, under A30, p. 66
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin, 1989, I; p. 191, III, fig. 1178
L. Slatkes & W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen,
Utrecht, 2007, pp. 127-129, cat. no R. 44

The present painting derives from a similar composition, with some variations in the figures, now at the Art Institute, Chicago (Charles H and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, inv. 1969.3). As Slatkes and Franits noted (see Literature), the author of this picture has eliminated Saint Peter and added a more prominent and traditional version of the saint and a soldier whose excited gesture opposes that of the accusing servant woman. These figures are similar to physical types favored by Gerard Seghers and his followers. In fact, a similar Saint Peter appears in Seghers's Denial of st. Peter in (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh).
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: W
W Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.