Attributed to Jan Lievens

The Feast of Esther



Attributed to Jan Lievens - The Feast of Esther



Attributed to Jan Lievens
The Feast of Esther
c. 1625
130 x 165 cm
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Bredius 631 (Rembrandt)
Bauch A1 info
Bredius/Gerson 631 info
Corpus I C 2 (attributed to Jan Lievens) info
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



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


Jan Lievens Samson and Delila
Samson and Delila
1627-28

Jan Lievens The Card Players
The Card Players
c. 1623-24

Jan Lievens The Lamentation of Christ (modello)
The Lamentation of Christ (modello)
c. 1640

Jan Lievens Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah
c. 1630

Jan Lievens and Jan Andrea Lievens The Geographer
The Geographer
c. 1665