ID 990749
Lot 129 | ATTRIBUTED TO JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Saint Francis in Ecstasy
oil on canvas
38 x 31 3/8 in. (96.5 x 79.7 cm.)
Provenance
Ida Israelsson (1874-1962) and August Herbert Israelsson (1876-1968), Örebro, from 1925, and by descent to their son,
Martin Israelsson Hagenfeldt (1899-1974), Örebro.
Private collection, Belgium.
Anonymous sale; Auction Affair S.R.L., Martina Franca, 27 February 2018, lot 189.
Literature
H. Schneider, Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Haarlem, 1932, pp. 35 and 107, no. 65, fig. 4, as Jan Lievens.
K. Bauch, Die Kunst des jungen Rembrandt, Heidelberg, 1933, p. 220, as Jan Lievens.
H. Schneider and R.E.O. Ekkart, Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 324, no. 65, fig. 4, as Jan Lievens.
J. Knipping, Iconography of the Counter Reformation in the Netherlands, Utrecht, 1974, p. 150, note 219.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau in der Pfalz, 1986, III, p. 1795, under no. 1239, as Jan Lievens.
B. Schnackenburg, Jan Lievens: Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, with a catalogue raisonné of his early Leiden work 1623-1632, Petersburg, 2017, p. 325, no. 144, illustrated, as Jan Lievens.
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