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
Manuth 4 (as Rembrandt)
Giltaij 530 (circle of Rembrandt)

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
Stephanie S. Dickey and Jochen Sander (eds.), Rembrandt in Amsterdam, New Haven, 2021, fig. 11.5 (as Rembrandt)

Exhibitions

2019 Young Rembrandt, Nr. 83
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

Gideon's Sacrifice
early 1650s

Saint Jerome Meditating in a Grotto
c. 1630

The Card Players
c. 1623-24

The Feast of Esther
c. 1625

The Lamentation of Christ (modello)
c. 1640