DIRCK VAN BABUREN (1595 Utrecht 1624) Offering to Ceres. Circa 1621. Oil on canvas. 137 × 186.7 cm. Provenance: - Probably private collection François Quesnel (1543-1619), Paris (as Bartolomeo Manfredi). - Private collection Jean-François Séguier (1703-1784), Nîmes (as Valentin de Boulogne). - Private collection Anthelme-Michel-Laurent de Migieu, Marquis de Savigny (1723-1788), Paris, 1751 (as Valentin de Boulogne). - By inheritance, private collection René Gaspar Vicomte de Vaulchier, Savigny-lès-Beaune, Côte-d'Or, 1952. - Sotheby's auction, London, 4.12.2013, lot 18. - Private property. Exhibitions: - Utrecht/Antwerp 1952, Caravaggio en de Nederlanden, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 15.6-3.8.1952 / Koninklijk Museum voor schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 10.8.-28.9.1952, no. 91 (as attributed to Hendrick ter Brugghen, possibly Baburen). - Dijon 1958, Les plus belles œuvres de la Côte-d'Or, Musée de Dijon, Palais des Etats de Bourgogne, 1958, no. 32 (as attributed to Dirck van Baburen). Literature: - Probably Vicomte de Grouchy: Inventaire des tableaux de François Quesnel (1697), in: Nouvelles archives de l'art français, 8ème année, 1892, p. 93 (as Bartolomeo Manfredi: "un sacrifice à Flore de Manfrede"). - Probably manuscrit 130, fonds Séguier, Bibliothèque de Nîmes (as Valentin de Boulogne: "des sacrificateurs, un soldat, mènent au dieu trois femmes portant des corbeilles de fleurs; for bon de dessin et de clair-obscur, par Valentin"). - Laurent de Migieu: Livre de Dépenses, Archives du Comte de Savigny, 1751, no. 9 in the list of works previously belonging to M. Seguier (as "un sacrifice de Valentin"). - Exh. cat. Caravaggio en de Nederlanden, Utrecht/Antwerp 1952, p. 56, cat. no. 91, fig. 69. - Benedict Nicolson: Caravaggio and the Netherlands, review of Utrecht/Antwerp exhibition, in: The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCIV, no. 594, September 1952, p. 248 and footnote 13 (as Baburen). - Vitale Bloch: I Caraveggeschi a Utrecht e Anversa, in: Paragone, no. 33, September 1952, p. 18 (dated c. 1622-1624, from Baburen's Utrecht creative period). - Exhibit-cat. Les plus belles oeuvres des collections de la Côte-d'Or, Dijon 1958, p. 21, cat. no. 32, fig. VII. - Benedict Nicolson: Hendrick Terbrugghen, The Hague 1958, p. 53, mentioned under no. A12, and p. 119 under "works wrongly attributed to Terbrugghen" (as Baburen c. 1622). - Leonard J. Slatkes: Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Proefschrift, University of Utrecht 1962, text pp. 54-55, cat. no. A8, p. 101. - Leonard J. Slatkes: Dirck van Baburen (c. 1595-1624): A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome, Utrecht 1965, text pp. 54-55, cat. no. A8, p. 112, fig. 12; also mentioned under cat. nos. A19 and A22 (as late work of the Roman creative phase or early work of the Utrecht creative phase, c. 1620). - Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée: New Paintings by Bartolommeo Manfredi, in: The Burlington Magazine, vol. 121, no. 914, 1979, p. 310 ("un sacrifice à Flore de Manfrede" in the 1697 inventory of the François de Quesnel collection). - Benedict Nicolson: The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, pp. 19, 220, 248. - Rüdiger Klessmann: Utrechter Caravaggisten zwischen Manierismus und Klassizismus, in: Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland: Beiträge eines Symposium im Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 23.-25.3.1987, Braunschweig 1988, p. 60, fig. 68 and p. 64, footnote 5. - Benedict Nicolson and Luisa Vertova: Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1989, vol. I, p. 56 and vol. III, plate 1045. - R. Morselli: Baburen, Dirck (Jaspersz) van, in: Saur Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Die bildenden aller Künstler Zeiten und Völker, vol. VI, Munich and Leipzig 1992, p. 110. - M. Giulia Aurigemma: Gherardo, Enrico, Teodoro ed altri simili, in: L'asino iconoclasta. Seicento Olandese: proposte di lettura, problemi di metodo e di interpretazione, Rome 1993, p. 42. - Valentina White: Il soggiorno romano di Dirck van Baburen. La commitenza e le opere, in: Irene Baldriga and Silvia Danesi Squarzina (eds.): Fiaminghi che vanno e vengono no li si puol dar regola. Paesi Bassi e Italia fra Cinquecento e seicento: pittura, storia e cultura degli emblemi, Rome 1995, pp. 185-88, fig. 8 (as a scene from the play Granida by Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, 1615). - Leonard J. Slatkes: Bringing Ter Brugghen and Baburen Up-to-Date, in Bulletin du Musée national de Varsovie, vol. XXXVII, 1996, p. 206, footnote 35 and p. 207, fig. 4 (dated 1621). - Joaneath Spicer et al: Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, exhib.cat. San Francisco/Baltimore/London 1997, p. 423, footnote 5 under cat. no. 41, pp. 254-256 (as an early work of the Utrecht creative period). - Leonard J. Slatkes and Wayne Franits: The Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen 1588-1629. Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2007, pp. 19-20, fig. 14; re.