Jan van den Hoecke (Antwerpen 1611 - Antwerpen 1651). The Cumaean Sibyl.

Lot description

Oil/canvas. 61 x 50,5 cm. Rims timmed. Van der Hoecke's series of sibyls without older iconographic models developed into such a sales success that the artist repeated the motifs several times. Recently, Jan van der Hoecke could be identified as the artist for these motifs, which were attributed to different pupils of Rubens and van Dyck in the past. - Literature: J. Sanzsalazar: Jan van Hoecke (1611-1651), el pintor de Sibilas: éxito, inspiración y dispersión de una iconografía muy personal. In: Philostrato No. 5, 2019, p. 5-32 - Provenance: Collection of a Hamburg chocolate manufacturer - Flemish history and figure painter. H. was a pupil of his father Kaspar Hoecke and possibly also of Rubens. He went to Italy after 1635 and then to Vienna, where he became court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and returned with him to Antwerp in 1647. Mus.: Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Florence (Uffizi), Vienna, Antwerp, Prague a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.