LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

75.59 in. (192.00 cm.) (height) by 96.06 in. (244.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'AO 90 CCornely H fe'

Exhibited:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, 1986-2008, cat. no. 2280.

Literature:

A. Bredius, 'Rembrandtiana', Oud Holland 28, 1910, p. 198. A. Bredius and O. Hirschman, Künstler-Inventare. Urkunden zur Geschichte der holländischen Kunst des XVIIten und XVIIIten Jahrhunderts, 7 vols., The Hague, 1915-21, p. 1739. H.J. Postma, 'De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Herman Becker (ca. 1617-1678). Nieuwe gegvens over een geldschieter van Rembrandt', Oud Holland 102, 1988, p. 17. P.J.J. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem 1562-1638, Doornspijk, 1999, pp. 345-46, no. 134, plate 58, color plate II.

Provenance:

(Probably) Jacob Rauwert collection, Amsterdam, by descent to his son Claes; sale, Amsterdam, 28 August 1612 as '1 doeck Hercules' (to Hendrick van Os). (Probably) inventory of the estate of Herman Becker, Amsterdam, 19 October 1678, fol. 285v: 'In de sal naest het voorhuijs: Een hercules van Mr. Corn[elis] van Haarlem'. Potschien, Berlin, circa 1925, and by descent. Confiscated by the East German Government in December 1985. Transferred to the Bode-Museum, 1986. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 1998-2006. Bode-Museum, Berlin, 2006-2008. Restituted to the present owner, 2008.