Nicaise de Keyser (1813 – 1887) - Trinitarian Friar with alm box

Trinitarian Friar with alm box

Oil on panel

55 x 44 cm / 21,7 x 17,3 in

Signed and dated on the lower left corner (NDeKeyser, 1841.)

Original collection label on the back with inventory number 405. The number is documented on the catalog of the Private Painting Collection of His Majesty King Ludwig of Bavaria from 1829, handwritten by Johann Georg von Dillis. The Trinitarians were founded in 1198 by St. John de Matha and St. Felix of Valois. The Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives was founded to ransom Christian slaves from the Moores. The Order is still alive and well today.

Provenance
Acquired in 1844 by the art dealer Artaria & Fontaine in Mannheim for the price of 1000 fl. (Cash book 96, 1843/1844, p. 8, no. 20)
1925 transferred to the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfond
1939 sold from Ausgleichsfond

Exhibitions
XI. Kunstausstellung der königlich bayerischen Akademie der bildeneden Künste, München, 1845, Nr. 63.

Literature
Catalogue of the Neue Pinakothek:
1853, S. 58, Nr. 64
1855, S. 58, Nr. 64
1858, S. 60, Nr. 64
1862, S. 60, Nr. 64
1868, S. 66, Nr. 64
1871, Nr. 236
1877/78, Nr. 237
1880/81, Nr. 250
1883/87, Nr. 253
1889-1892, Nr. 372
1894-1899, Nr. 421
1900 – 1913, Nr. 399
1914, Nr. 450

Inventory of the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds (written 1929/1939), Nr. 432..

Ludwig I. und die Neue Pinakothek, Hrsg. Herbert W. Rott, München, 2003, S. 226, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildung.

Graphic reproductions
Lithography by Johann Wölffle, in the Galeriewerk der Neuen Pinakothek by Piloty und Loehle, Nr. 63.