Nicolaes Berchem

The Battle Between Alexander and Porus



Nicolaes Berchem - The Battle Between Alexander and Porus



Nicolaes Berchem
The Battle Between Alexander and Porus
111 x 153 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: N. Berchem
Sale Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2018


Provenance

Nicholas van Bremen
his sale, Amsterdam, 15 December 1766, nr. 54
Sir Robert Price, Bt., M.P., by 1837
his sale, Foster's, London, 11 June 1856 (235 gns. to Smith for Oppenheim)
Johann Mortiz Oppenheim, Cannon St. West, London
his sale, Christie's, London, 4 June 1864, nr. 39 (175 gns. to Holloway)
E.N.F. Loyd, London
his sale, London, Christie's, 30 April 1937, nr. 86 (90 gns. to Vicars)
with Vicars Brothers, London
anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1988, nr. 97 (£90,000)
anonymous sale ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2003, nr. 38, ($344,000)
anonymous sale ("The Property of an Estate"), New York, Christie's, 8 June 2011, nr. 19 ($302,500).
Sale Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2018, nr. 63

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