69. 69W Utrecht school, 17th century Denial of Peter oil on canvas oil on canvas 168.7 x 231.8cm (66 7/16 x 91 1/4in). Provenance Proprietà di Donna Marcella Traballesi, Nobili Della Scala by whom offered Sale, Christie's, Florence, Palazzo della Stufa, 3-4 October 1995, lot 325 Private Collection, Italy, 1997 (according to Literature) Private Collection, Italy Literature B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London, 1958, under A30, p. 66 B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin, 1989, I; p. 191, III, fig. 1178 L. Slatkes & W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Utrecht, 2007, pp. 127-129, cat. no. R. 44 The present painting derives from a similar composition, with some variations in the figures, now at the Art Institute, Chicago (Charles H and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, inv. 1969.3). As Slatkes and Franits noted (see Literature), the author of this picture has eliminated Saint Peter and added a more prominent and traditional version of the saint and a soldier whose excited gesture opposes that of the accusing servant woman. These figures are similar to physical types favoured by Gerard Seghers and his followers. In fact, a similar Saint Peter appears in Seghers's Denial of st. Peter in (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh).