Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael
Utrecht 1566 – 1683

Saint Luke

oil on panel

31 1/4"×24 1/2" (79.3 cm×62.2 cm)

PROVENANCE:
With Appleby Bros., London, 1958 Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s London, October 29, 1958, lot 140, as Flemish School, where purchased by James O. Belden, Washington, D.C.

EXHIBITED: Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Art Gallery, Dutch Mannerism, Apogee and Epilogue, 1970, pp. 68 ’ 69, no. 100

LITERATURE: A.W. Lowenthal, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism, Doornspijk, 1986, p. 138, no. A-70, pl. 100

NOTE: This painting along with its pendants, Saint Matthew (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore) and Saint John (Mead Art Museum, Amherst College) (see Lowenthal, op, cit., nos. A-69 and A-71), are replicas of Wtewael’s only known complete set of the Four Evangelists of 1616, now in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (ibid., nos. A-65-68). In each case the differences are minimal. Our Saint Luke is almost identical to the version in Stuttgart, except for the absence of feathers on the Evangelist’s quill.

The artist painted a third set of Evangelists (ibid., nos. A-54-56), of which the Saint Matthew is missing but is recorded by a copy (ibid., no. C-19) in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht; the Saint Mark and Saint Luke are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam while the Saint John is in the Leonard J. Slatkes collection, New York.

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