Bathing Scene

France, Strasbourg, Musée des beaux arts, inv. 998 , as Sweerts, M.

Other title(s)	Bathing Men Hommes se baignant The Bathers
Category	paintings
Support	canvas
Medium	oil
Composition	horizontal
Dimensions	109 x 164 cm
Location	permanent collection

Last attribution known	Sweerts, M.
Other attribution(s)	Sweerts, M. and Achtschellinckx, L. (landscape); Sweerts, M. and D'Arthois, J. (landscape); Sweerts, M. and LDV (landscape); Sweerts, M. and Van der Stock, I. (landscape)
Work seen	yes
Our assessment	landscape possibly LDV

Possessor(s)

de Burtin, Chevalier Fr.-X. ( Belgium )

Art dealer(s)

Tompay ( France )

Public auction(s)

21/07/1819 - Brussels, unknown, no. 131

Exhibition(s)

2009 - Strasbourg, Musée des beaux-arts, Réalités d'un monde. Peintures flamandes et hollandaises du musée des beaux-arts

Bibliography

BROWN, Ch., Review: I Bamboccianti. Utecht and Cologne, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 134, No. 1066 (Jan. 1992), 1992, pp. 54-56

DE MAERE, J. & WABBES, M., Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, Bruxelles, 1994, ill. p. 1133

HUBRECH, J., Michael Sweert (Bruxelles, 1624 - Goa, 1664). Hommes se baignant, in Collection du Musée des beaux-arts. Peintures flamandes et hollandaises. XVe-XVIIe siècle, Strasbourg, 2009, p. 144

YEAGER-CRASSELT, L., Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels. Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th- and 17th- Century Flemish Painting and Drawing 21, Turnhout, 2015, pp. 101 and 111, Pl. 28

Comment

There is a possible familial connection between Michael Sweerts and Lodewijk de Vadder as an Anna de Vadder stood as godmother to Sweerts’s nephew in Brussels in July 1655 (Lara Yeager-Crasselt, 2015).