Lot 200: NICOLAS RÉGNIER MAUBEUGE, FLANDERS CIRCA 1590 - 1667 VENICE

PROPERTY FROM A CORPORATE COLLECTION

SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST ON THE ISLAND OF PATMOS

measurements note
167 by 139.8 cm.; 65 3/4 by 55 in.

oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

NOTE

Though Flemish by birth, Régnier is most closely associated now with the French painters such as Simon Vouet, Valentin de Boulogne and Nicholas Tournier, who were working in Rome in the second decade of the seventeenth century and who, like Régnier, were profoundly influenced by the works of Caravaggio. Régnier himself was in Rome from 1615 until 1626, when he settled in Venice. The present painting may belong to this phase of Régnier's career or shortly afterwards. Similar models are employed, for example, in his depictions of David with the head of Goliath in the Galleria Spada in Romeυ or Saint John the Evangelist in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.υ1 Another Saint John, in a private Parisian collection, shown at half-length, uses the same pose for the head of the saint.υ2

1. B. Nicholson, ed. L. Vertova, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1989, vol. III, reproduced plates 947 and 969.
2. Reproduced in the exhibition catalogue, Dopo Caravaggio: Bartolomeo Manfredi e la Manfrediana Methodus, Cremona, Santa Maria della Pietà, 1988, p. 48.