Lot 316: Artus Wolffort (Antwerp 1581-1641) Heraclitus with

Artus Wolffort (Antwerp 1581-1641) Heraclitus with the globe, oil on panel, 64 x 49.5 cm, framed, (GS) Provenance: German private collection; Dr. F. Rothmann Collection, GarmischPartenkirchen (1957); Brod Gallery, London; English private collection; Walter Kolb Collection, Kehl (1974); Paul Schaer-Micheluzzi Collection, Basel (1977); Bukowski, Zurich (1984);. K. Surowietz Collection, Sottrum (1985); Rhenish private collection Literature: Die Weltkunst, XXV, 1955, 12, p. 11; A. Blankert, "Heraclitus en Democritus, in het bijzonder in de Nederlandse kunst van de 17de eeuw", in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, XVIII, 1967, pp. 108-09, 65; H. Vlieghe, "Zwischen Van Veen und Rubens, Artus Wolffort (1581-1641), ein vergessener Antwerpener Maler", in: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, XXXIX, 1977, p. 102, 15; E. McGrath, Rubens' Subjects from History, vol. II, Catalogue & Indexes, London 1997, pp. 57-58, 9, fig. 35. L. Burchart and J. Müller-Hofstede identified the present painting as a work by Peter Paul Rubens, with Burchart dating it to c. 1618 and Müller-Hofstede around 1595. H. Vlieghe was the first to plausibly attribute it to Artus Wolffort, a student of Francken.