Jan Lievens

Attributed by the Rijksmuseum to Rembrandt.

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Corpus I C 1
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1184
Schnackenburg 65

Collection catalogues
Pieter J.J. van Thiel, C.J. de Bruyn Kops, Jola Cleveringa, Wouter Kloek, Annemarie Vels Heijn, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Maarssen, 1976, p. 472

Literature
Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, Maarssen, 1984, fig. 68
Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch & Pieter van Thiel, Rembrandt, New Haven; London, 1991, fig. 81
Peter van der Ploeg, Carola Vermeeren, Princely patrons, Hague; Zwolle, 1997, p. 185, fig. 2
Richard Verdi, Rembrandt's themes, New Haven, 2014, fig. 18
Ildikó Ember (ed.), Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Budapest, 2014, p. 62 fig. 3
Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. 22

Exhibitions

2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 83

Provenance

Private collection, England
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Mrs Derek Fitzgerald, Heathfield Park (Sussex), by 1956
her sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1963, nr. 14, bought for fl. 63,040 by the dealer P. de Boer for the Rijksmuseum
acquired by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam as a gift from the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
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Iconclass

71F375 Samson asleep in Delilah's lap; she is usually shown beckoning to a Philistine or putting a finger to her lips

External links

RKD 206142
Rijksmuseum Accession number SK-A-4096

Other works by Jan Lievens

The Card Players
c. 1623-24

The Lamentation of Christ (modello)
c. 1640

The Feast of Esther
c. 1625

The Evangelist John
c. 1626-27