Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Joseph bewailed as dead by his father; the sons and daughters are unable to console him



Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Joseph bewailed as dead by his father; the sons and daughters are unable to console him



Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Joseph bewailed as dead by his father; the sons and daughters are unable to console him
122 x 97 cm
Oil on canvas
The Leiden Collection, New York


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 451


Exhibitions

2023 Rembrandt and His Contemporaries. History paintings from The Leiden Collection, Nr. 11

Provenance

Jean-Baptist-Pierre Lebrun (1748–1813)
his sale, Paris, 20 December 1773, no. 12 to Doujeu, as by Rembrandt
Sir Robert Strange (1721–92), London
his sale, Christie’s, London, 5–6 May 1775, no. 116, as by Rembrandt
Edward Smith-Stanley (1752–1834), 12th Earl of Derby, Lancashire Park, England, by 1818
by descent until 2000
sale, Christie’s, London, 13 December 2000, no. 5, unsold as attributed to Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout
with Simon Dickinson, New York, 2009
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2009

External links

RKD 102377
Leiden Collection, New York Accession number GE-101

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