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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 227:

Technical notes: A dendrochronological examination
has shown a felling date for the panel between c.
1594 and 1610, the most plausible date being 1604. The
monogram F/DB, that of the seventeenth-century
Antwerp panel-maker Francois de Bout (active
1637–1643) was discovered on the panel.1 The painting
underwent conservation treatment in 1929 and 1948.

Provenance: Coll. Sack, Bergshammar; acquired by
Gustav III (as Crown prince) 1779; Gustav III 1792, no.
4 (as Sebastien Bourdon); Drottningholm; transferred to
the NM in 1865.

Bibliography: Sander II, p. 101, no. 4 (as Sebastien
Bourdon); Sander III, p. 64 (as S. Vouet); Göthe 1887, p.
28 (as Sebastien Bourdon); Göthe 1893, p. 35 (as
Sebastien Bourdon); NM Cat. 1958, p. 226 (as anonymous
Flemish master); NM Cat.1990, p. 370 (as attributed
to Pierre J. J. Verhagen).

The earlier attribution to Pierre J. J. Verhagen is
clearly wrong. This is obvious for both stylistic reasons
and from the technical data. An attribution to
Philippe Vleughels made by Jaques Thuillier during
his visit to Stockholm in 1975 seems reasonable and
convincing.2

Vleughels’ painting reveals both his Flemish background,
with impulses from Rubens and the artists in
his circle, and the French classical tradition deriving
from Poussin and Sébastien Bourdon as it was cultivated
in the Royal Academy. This is obvious not least
in this painting, where the idyllic family scene is set at
the foot of a Corinthian column. It was probably
painted at the beginning of the 1640s shortly after the
artist’s arrival in Paris.

GCB
1 Cf. Van Damme 1990, pp. 220–222.
2 As noted by Bo Wennberg. See the NM curatorial files.
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