Abraham Bloemaert

Moses Striking the Rock



Abraham Bloemaert - Moses Striking the Rock



Abraham Bloemaert
Moses Striking the Rock
1596
79.7 x 108 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower right: A·Blomaert·fe / ao·1596
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Gift of Mary V. T. Eberstadt, by exchange, 1972


Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 9

Literature
Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. 6


Exhibitions

1990 Great Dutch Paintings in America, Nr. 8

Provenance

?Jan Vincent Coster, Amsterdam, in 1622
John Andrews, until 1832
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 3 March 1832, nr. 65, to Tuck
Isidor Sachs, Vienna, until d. 1871
his estate sale, Posonyi, Vienna, 17 December, 1872, nr. 97
with H.O. Miethke, Vienna, about 1889–92
Carl Franze, Tetschen, until 1916
posthumous sale, Lepke's, Berlin, 7 November 1916, nr. 63
Prof. Curt Glaser, Berlin, by 1928–33
his anonymous sale, Internationales Kunst- und Auktions-Haus, Berlin, 9 May 1933, nr. 241, to Gurlitt
with Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich, 1933–at least 1962
with Adolphe Stein, Paris, until 1965, sold to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, New York, 1965–66, sold to Reid
Bagley Reid, New York, 1966–72, sold to MMA


External links

RKD 58151
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1972.171

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