LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

23.66 in. (60.10 cm.) (height) by 18.82 in. (47.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1821, no. 78 (as by Rembrandt); Naples, 1879 (presumably as by Rembrandt).

Literature:

W. Bode, Studien zur Geschichte des holländischen Malerei, Braunschweig 1883, p. 609, no. 379 (as by Rembrandt); A. von Wurzbach, Rembrandt Galerie, 1886, no. 362 (as by Rembrandt); E. Michel, Rembrandt. His life, his Work, his Times, London 1894, vol. II, p. 245 (as by Rembrandt); W. Bode (with C. Hofstede de Groot), Rembrandt. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde.., Paris 1897-1906, no. 33 (as by Rembrandt); C. Sedelmeyer, Illustrated Catalogue of 300 Paintings by Old Masters, Paris 1898, no. 109 (as by Rembrandt); W.R. Valentiner, Klassiker der Kunst. Rembrandt. Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1908, p. 46, reproduced (as by Rembrandt); A. Bredius, in Oud Holland, vol. XXIX, 1911, p. 194 (as by Jan Lievens(?)); C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné.., London 1915, p. 220, no. 410 (as Rembrandt, not seen by the author, and "regarded by some as the work of [Lievens]"); W.R. Valentiner, Klassiker der Kunst. Rembrandt, Wiedergefundene Gemälde, Stuttgart 1921, p. 123, add. 46 (as by Rembrandt); W.R. Valentiner, Klassiker der Kunst. Rembrandt, Des Meisters Gemälde, 4th edition, Stuttgart 1923, under Supplement to earlier editions (as much more like Lievens, and signed by him); J.C. van Dyke, Rembrandt and his School, New York 1923, reproduced plate XXVI, fig. 102 (as by Lievens); H. Schneider, Jan Lievens Sein Leben und Seine Werke, Haarlem 1932, pp. 133-4, no. 164 (as by Lievens, and so described in all subsequent literature); K. Bauch, Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandt, Heidelberg 1933, p. 220; K. Bauch, in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, vol. XI, 1939, p. 259; K. Bauch, in Pantheon, vol. XXV, 1967, pp. 262-3; R.E.O. Ekkart (ed), H. Schneider, Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und Seine Werke, Amsterdam 1973, pp. 133-4, 330, no. 164; R. Mezzetti, in Rubens e l'incisione, exhibition catalogue, Rome 1977, p. 14, under no. 2, and p. 95, under no. 192; Rubens and his Engravers, exhibition catalogue, London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1977, unpaginated, under no. 5; R. Klessmann, Jan Lievens, ein Maler im Schatten Rembrandts, exhibition catalogue, Braunschweig, 6 September - 11 November 1979, p. 74, under no. 20; W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. III, p. 1796, under no. 1240.

Provenance:

The Most Hon. the Marquis of Cholmondeley, London, by 1821; His sale, London, Christie's, 9 July 1886, lot 218 (as Rembrandt); With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1887, by whom sold before 1894 to E.G. Fabbri, Florence, by 1894 and later in New York, probably until at least 1932, when noted there by Schneider (under literature); With D. Katz, Dieren; D.G. van Beuningen, Rotterdam, probably after 1948, since omitted from his catalogue of that year; His deceased sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2004, lot 7, for £1,650,000; With Johnny van Haeften, London, from whom acquired by the present collector.