Saint Michael

between 1648 and 1649

Lucas Franchoys the Younger Flemish, 1616-1681

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Title Saint Michael

Artwork Date between 1648 and 1649

Artist Lucas Franchoys the Younger

Life Dates 1616-1681

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 10 × 7 3/4 inches (25.4 × 19.7 cm) Framed: 15 1/8 × 12 7/8 × 2 1/4 inches (38.4 × 32.7 × 5.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 30.90

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Provenance

September 26, 1917, auctioned by (K. von Kilonyi, Budapest, Hungary), lot 13

(Galerie Haberstock, Berlin, Germany)

(Vitale Bloch & Co., Berlin, Germany)

1930, (Galerie J. Böhler, Munich, Germany)

1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. "Sketches by Rubens and van Dyck," Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 6 (1930): p. 80; (cover repr.) [as by Rubens].

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 195, (repr.) [as Rubens].

Exhibition of 60 Paintings and Some Drawings by Peter Paul Rubens. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1936, no. 43 [as Rubens; cat. entry by W.R. Valentiner & L.J. Walther].

Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1937, pp. 45, 47, (cover repr.) [as by Rubens].

Esquisses Rubens. Exh. cat., Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Belgium, 1937, no. 26 [as by Rubens].

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 114, no. 195 [as P. P. Rubens].

Loan Exhibition of 43 Paintings by Rubens and 25 Paintings by van Dyck. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1946, no. 25 [as Rubens].

Valentiner, W.R. "Rubens' Paintings in America," Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2 (1946): p. 160, no. 73 [as by Rubens].

Goris, J. & J.S. Held. Rubens in America. New York, 1947, p. 52, no. A.70, pl. 4, appendix [by a classicizing follower of Rubens].

Held, J.S. "Sketches by Lucas Franchoys the Younger," Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1 (1951): pp. 46-49, 53-55.

Saligny, F. de. "Lucas Franchoys," Bulletin des Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. 16 (1967): p. 224, no. 34.

Homage to Rubens. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1978, no. 12 [cat. entry by Grimes].

Bossenbrook, William John and Rolf Johannesen. Foundations of Western Civilization. Boston, 1939, p. 624-625 (ill.).

Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 56-58, (repr.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Lucas Franchoys the Younger, Saint Michael, between 1648 and 1649, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 30.90.