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AERT DE GELDER (DORDRECHT 1645-1727)

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ID 887482
Lot 11 | AERT DE GELDER (DORDRECHT 1645-1727)
AERT DE GELDER (DORDRECHT 1645-1727)

Esther at her toilet

indistinctly signed ‘A De Gelder f’ ('AD' linked, upper right)

oil on canvas

43 3/8 x 48 1/2 in. (110 x 123 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) David Jetswaart [Ietswaart]; Amsterdam, 22 April 1749, lot 136.

Professor R.M. Dawkins, Abergele, Wales, and Exeter College, Oxford; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 2 November 1955, lot 161, where acquired for £4,200 by the following,

with Edward Speelman, London.

with Herner Wengraf, London, by 1970.

with H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1976.

with John H. Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam, by 1989.

Private collection, Europe.

with H.M. Cramer, The Hague, 1992

[Property of a European Private Collector]; Christie’s, New York, 29 January 1998, lot 114, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

(Possibly) G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen, II, The Hague, 1752, p. 247, no. 136.

E. Brochhagen, Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1967, p. 27, under no. 841.

D.R. van Fossen, ‘The Paintings of Aert de Gelder’, Ph.D. dissertation, 1969, pp. 143, 150, 250, no. 40, fig. 42.

J. Daniels, ‘London Galleries: Baroque Dialogues’, Apollo, XCI, 1970, p. 309, pl. 2.

G. Eckardt, Die Gemälde in der Bildergalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam, 1975, p. 40, under no. 28.

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, pp. 1165, 1204, no. 744, illustrated.

B. Haak, Hollandse schilders in de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam, 1984, p. 370, fig. 781.

‘Loans’, The Israel Museum Journal, V, Spring 1986, p. 128, illustrated.

Apollo, CXXIX, March 1989, p. 68, illustrated.

A. Blankert, Ten years of Kunsthandel drs. John H. Schlichte Bergen, 1979-1989, Amsterdam, 1989, pp. 36-38, illustrated.

J. Boonen, 'Verhalen van Israëls ballingschap en vrijheidsstrijd,' Het Oude Testament in de Schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam and Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 107-108, 118, note 11.

J.W. von Moltke, Arent de Gelder: Dordrecht 1645-1727, Doornspijk, 1994, pp. 37, 73, no. 27, color pl. XIV, pl. 27.

P. Sutton, in Arent de Gelder (1645-1727): Rembrandts laatste leerling, exhibition catalogue, Dordrecht and Cologne, 1998-1999, p. 168, under no. 20, fig. 1.

‘XVIII Speciale Dipinti antichi/I resultati delle vendite all’asta’, Il Giornale dell’Arte, no. 176, April 1999, illustrated.



Exhibited

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Rembrandt als leermeester, 1 June-1 September 1956, no. 58.

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Holland’s Golden Age, 18 February-7 April 1959, no. 40.

London, Herner Wengraf, Acquisitions 1970: Fine Paintings of Five Centuries, April 1970, no. 13.

Munich, Bernheimer, Kunst und Tradition: Meisterwerke bedeutender Provenienzen, 1989, pp. 84-85.

Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Im Lichte Rembrandts: Das Alte Testament im Goldenen Zeitalter der Niederländischen Kunst, 11 September-20 November 1994, no. 54 (cat. by C. Tümpel).



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This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Aert de Gelder (1645 - 1727)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
Auction house category:Paintings
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