Matthias Stom
Old Woman Praying
late 1630s or early 1640s77.8 x 63.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Ian Woodner, 1981
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 198
Provenance
Benedict Nicolson, London, by 1954–early 1960s, sold to Arcade Gallery
with Arcade Gallery, London, early 1960s–about 1969, sold to Moss
with Stanley Moss and Ian Woodner, New York, from about 1969, sold by Moss to Woodner
Ian Woodner, New York, until 1981
Other works by Matthias Stom
Tobias and the angel
c. 1630/32
c. 1630/32
The arrest of Christ
Abraham, Sarah and Hagar
The Mocking of Ceres
c. 1640/45
c. 1640/45
Esau Selling His Birthright