Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (37.1996)

5. Hendrick ter Brugghen,
Pilate Washing his Hands,
Lublin, Muzeum Lubelskie,
X-ray radiograph detail
(upper left side)

in differentiation of parchments and complexions, permit us to qualify the
Lublin Pilate without any doubt to a category higher than “workshop replica”.
It also surpasses the Repentant St. Peter in the Boymans-van Beuningen
Museum in Rotterdam, which - in spite of the opinion of van Thiel - Slatkes
does not believe to be an original but only a repetition (a workshop replica?)
of a lost prime version, signed and dated 1616.9 Practically this alone -
together with its refined colour scheme (deep tones of brownish-red in the
bottom robe of Pilate and his dark orange overcoat, combined with the
olive-green in the attire of the younger servant, cooler in its lights, warmer in

9 B.Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, op. cit., cat. no. D90, Plate 2b (as: Copy of a lost original by
Terbrugghen); Van Thiel, op. cit., passim; Slatkes, “Rethinking ter Brugghen’s early Chronology”,
op. cit., pp.80-81, note 26, on p.84. On the question of the authenticity of this painting cf. also
the lecture of Prof. L. J. Slatkes during the present symposium.

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