Aert de Gelder - Homer



Aert de Gelder
Homer
c. 1700-10
101 x 127.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, upper left: A[...]Ge[...]de[...]f
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 760

Literature
Corinna Forberg, Die Rezeption indischer Miniaturen in der europäischen Kunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Petersberg, 2015, fig. 20



Provenance

Pieter Steijn, The Hague
by inheritance to his widow, Cornelia Schellinger Steijn, The Hague
Steijn sale, Rietmulder, The Hague, 7 October 1783, nr. 65
anonymous sale, Amsterdam, 23 May 1798, nr. 67, to Berkenbosch
Maréchal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult (born 1769 - died 1851), duc de Dalmatie, Paris
posthumous Soult sale, Galerie Lebrun, Paris, 17 May 1852, nr. 150, to Bonnefons
Beaumont family, Paris
sold by Comte Beaumont to Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., Inc., New York
sold by Seligmann to the MFA, 1939

External links

RKD 3720
Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 39.45

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c. 1680/90

Aert de Gelder The Entombment
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Aert de Gelder Jacob's Dream
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Aert de Gelder David Playing the Harp to Saul
David Playing the Harp to Saul
1682

Arent de Gelder Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli
Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli
c. 1710