Literature

Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, Maarssen, 1984, fig. 8
Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch & Pieter van Thiel, Rembrandt, New Haven; London, 1991, fig. 37
Christian Tico Seifert, Pieter Lastman, Petersberg, 2011, fig. 196
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. IIB-71
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2016], fig. 54
Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. 19
Rembrandt intime, Bruxelles, 2016, fig. 16

Exhibitions

2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 82
2006 Pieter Lastman - In Rembrandts Schatten?, Nr. 12

Provenance

Captain Eric C. Palmer, Clapton Revel, Woburn Green
with Colnaghi's, London, 1974
with Richard L. Feigen, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, as gift of Judy and Michael Steinhardt, New York, to the American Friends of The Israel Museum
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71E33141 Balaam strikes his ass, whereupon the ass lies down and starts to speak

Other works by Pieter Lastman

Coriolanus
1625

Haman Begging Queen Esther for Mercy
1618

The Baptism of the Eunuch
1623

Bathsheba
1619

The Angel with Manoah and His Wife
1617