Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 631 (Rembrandt)
Bauch A1
Bredius/Gerson 631
Corpus I C 2 (attributed to Jan Lievens)
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1181
Schnackenburg 26
Giltaij 525a (Jan Lievens)

Literature
Duncan Bull (red.), Rembrandt Caravaggio, Zwolle - Amsterdam, 2006, fig. 88
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 84
Bernhard Schnackenburg, Jan Lievens, Petersberg, 2016, fig. 49
Jennifer Scott and Helen Hillzard, Rembrandt's Light, London, 2019, fig. 6

Exhibitions

2011 Rembrandt in America, Nr. 39
2008 Jan Lievens - A Dutch Master Rediscovered, Nr. 6
1998 Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, Nr. 29
1991 Rembrandt: the Master & his Workshop, Nr. 52

Provenance

Possibly Comte de Calonne, Paris
his sale, London, 25-28 March 1775
B. Sommelinck, Ghent
his sale, Brussels, Flévez, 16 December 1936, nr. 80 (as Aert de Gelder, signed and dated 1632)
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, until about 1939
with Charles A. de Burlet, Basel, until 1952
consigned in 1949 to Hans Schaeffer Galleries, New York
acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1952
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External links

RKD 63030

Other works by Jan Lievens

Saint Jerome Meditating in a Grotto
c. 1630

The Card Players
c. 1623-24

Samson and Delila
1627-28

Gideon's Sacrifice
early 1650s

The Geographer
c. 1665