Lot 9: Attributed to Dirck van Baburen (Wijk bij Duurstede, near Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624 Utrecht)

Attributed to Dirck van Baburen (Wijk bij Duurstede, near Utrecht c. 1594/5-1624 Utrecht)
A lute player and a singer, a musical score on the table
oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 32¾ in. (97.5 x 83.1 cm.)

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Pintura neerlandesa en México siglos XV, XVI y XVII, 1964, no. 10, as 'Dirk van Baburen'.

'Un Olandese figlio spirtuale d'Italia: Van Baburen', Arte Figurativa Antica e Moderna, 3, 1955, p. 29.
J.R. Judson, Gerrit van Honthorst; a discussion of his position in Dutch art, The Hague, 1956, 1st ed., p. 67, note 3, and 1959, 2nd ed., p. 68, note 3, as a 'genuine Honthorst'.
B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London, 1958, p. 119, as 'close to Baburen but not an original by him'.
L.J. Slatkes, Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624), a Dutch painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht, 1965, p. 138, as 'a copy of a lost Baburen'.
B. Nicolson, The international Caravaggesque movement: lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford, 1979, p. 18, as 'a copy after a lost Baburen'.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, I, Turin, 1989, p. 55, under no. 1061, as a copy after a lost original.

F. Pospisil, Venice, circa 1943.
with Antichità Frezzati, Venice.
Jeronimo Bertran Cusine, Mexico, by 1964.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 June 2011, lot 41, as 'Studio of Dirk van Baburen', where acquired by the present owner.