Paulus Bor
The Disillusioned Medea ('The Enchantress')
c. 1640155.6 x 112.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Ben Heller, 1972
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 12
Literature
Pierre Rosenberg, Only in America, Milano, 2006, pp. 102-103
Jonathan Bikker (ed.), Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007, p. 73 fig. 24a
Exhibitions
1998 Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers, Nr. 9
Provenance
principi Chigi, Castelfusano, Rome, by 1824–1941, as by Salvator Rosa, sold through Steno Cecconi to Busiri Vici
Andrea Busiri Vici, Rome, 1941–at least 1955
Ben Heller, New York, until 1972
Other works by Paulus Bor
A woman and a boy making an offering at a pagan altar
Travel Pouch and Documents on a Table
1630
1630
Cydippe with Acontius
c. 1640
c. 1640
Pharaoh's Daughter Discovers Moses in the Rush Basket
c. 1635-38
c. 1635-38
Bacchus
c. 1630/35
c. 1630/35