CORNELIS DE WAEL (Antwerp, 1592 - Rome, 1667) Adoration of the Golden Calf Oil on canvas, 72.5X127.5 cm Provenance: London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1993, lot 215 (as Cornelis de Wael) New York, Sotheby's, 27 October 1993, lot 171 (as Cornelis de Wael) Milan, antiquarian market Milan, private collection Bibliography: Benezit, 1999, v. 14, p. 383 A. Stoesser, Van Dyck's hosts in Genoa: Luca and Cornelis de Wael's and works, Turnhout 2018, II, p. 542, no. 97; p. 808, fig. 97 Trained in their father's workshop together with their brother Luca, between the first and second decade of the 17th century, the two young men undertook an educational trip to Italy, reaching Rome and then moving to Genoa around 1619, as a rental contract document attests. Their home was a real logistical base for the many Flemish artists who reached the peninsula, the first one being Antoon van Dyck, who found hospitality with his compatriots in 1621. Apart from a few trips to Rome, Cornelio lived permanently in Genoa throughout his career. In 1630 he was, in fact, taxed for the construction of the new walls and in 1642 he made an explicit request to the Republic to be able to declare himself a citizen of Genoa. The work is accompanied by a critical file by Raffaella Colace. Reference bibliography: P. Donati, Le sette opere di misericordia di Cornelio de Wael, Genoa 1988, pp. 24-26 C. Di Fabio, Due generazioni di pittori fiamminghi a Genova (1602-1657) e la bottega di Cornelis de Wael, in Van Dyck a Genova. Grand Painting and Collecting, exhibition catalogue edited by S. J. Barnes, P. Boccardo, C. Di Fabio, L. Tagliaferro, Milan 1997, pp. 82-104 A. Orlando, La pittura con scene di genere a Genova. Da Cornelis de Wael ad Alessandro Magnasco, in Da Caravaggio a Ceruti: la scena di genere e l'immagine dei pitocchi nella pittura italiana, exhibition catalogue edited by F. Porzio, Milan 1999, p. 390. E. Marcenaro, Misure, cortei e banchetti come scenografie di ricchezza, in Bollettino dei musei civici genovesi, no. 67, v. 23, 2001, p. 57, n. 14 A. Orlando, Dal Nord a Genova: pittura fiamminga-genovese nel Seicento in P. Boccardo, C. Di Fabio, Genova e l'Europa atlantica: Inghilterra, Fiandre, Portogallo: opere, artisti, committenti, collezionisti, Milano 2006, p. 199, fig. 13