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CORNELIS CORNELISZ. VAN HAARLEM (HAARLEM 1562-1638)

Lot 20
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ID 990549
Lot 20 | CORNELIS CORNELISZ. VAN HAARLEM (HAARLEM 1562-1638)
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CORNELIS CORNELISZ. VAN HAARLEM (HAARLEM 1562-1638)

The Raising of Lazarus

signed in monogram and dated ‘CvH . 1602 .’ (lower right)

oil on panel

63 1/2 x 74 in. (161.4 x 188 cm.), including a later horizontal addition to the upper edge of 16 3/8 x 74 in. (41.6 x 188 cm.)





Provenance

Jan Matthijsz. Ban (c. 1566-1624), Haarlem, 1604.

Anonymous sale; Jolles de Winter, Amsterdam, 23rd May 1764, lot 3, as ‘Een Capitaal stuck, zynde een Ryk Ordinantie, verbeeldende de Opwekking van Lazarus, zeer Uitvoerig en kragtig op een Paneel geschildert, en wel geconserveerd, hoog 64 duim, breed 75 duim; zynde het beste wat men van die Meester gezien heeft, beschreven by C. Vermander in 't Leven der Schilders, pag. 207 in de eerste Colom’ (‘A capital piece, being a rich composition representing the Raising of Lazarus, painted in great detail and very forcefully on a panel, and well preserved, ca. 160 x 187.5 cm; being the best seen from this master, described by C. van Mander in the Lives of the Painters, page 207 in the first column’), sold for 205 guilders to ‘Fiseau’, probably the following,

Jean-Étienne Fiseau (variously spelled Fiso, Fiseau, Fezeau, or Fiziau), Amsterdam.

Presumably purchased shortly after the Amsterdam sale by the 2nd Lord Conway, later created the first Marquess of Hertford (1718-1794), and by descent at Ragley Hall, Alcester, Warwickshire.



Literature

K. van Mander, Het Schilder-Boeck…, Haarlem, 1604, fol. 293r.

The Marquess of Hertford, Ragley Hall: an illustrated survey of the historic Warwickshire home of the Conway Seymour family. History and description of contents, Derby, 1965, n.p. pl. 18 & 19.

P. van Thiel, ‘Werner Jacobsz. van den Valckert’, Oud Holland, XCIII, no. 3, 1983, p. 176, note 93.

A. Lowenthal, Netherlandish Mannerism in British Collections, exhibition catalogue, Entwistle Gallery, London, 1990, p. 36, under no. 1, fig. 1b.

C. Wright, The World's Master Paintings From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide, II, London, 1992, p. 524.

K. van Mander, The Lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, H. Miedema ed., Doornspijk, 1999, I, pp. 430-1, fol. 293r; VI, pp. 31-32, no. 239r39, fig. 36.

P. Van Thiel, Cornelis Corenlisz van Haarlem, Ghent, 1999, pp. 42, 107, 108, 121, 137, 151 and 314-316, no. 60, pl. XXII, figs. 175-176 (details).

H. Leeflang, Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings, Zwolle, 2003, pp. 272-273, under no. 97, fig. 97b.

L. W. Nichols, ‘Cornelis van Haarlem: Haarlem’, The Burlington Magazine, CLV, no. 1319, February 2013, p. 121.

P. Jeroense, Bijbelse historiën in Haarlemse olieverf: Karel van Mander, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem en Hendrick Goltzius (1580-1620), Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 2016, pp. 63-4, 77, 237 and 292, note 131, illustrated, incorrectly noting ‘the painting has not survived’.

L. W. Nichols, The Paintings of Hendrick Goltzius 1558-1617: A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Doornspijk, 2013, pp. 204-5, note 10, fig. 105.



Exhibited

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, ‘The Dutch Michelangelo’ Cornelis van Haarlem (1562-1638), 29 September 2012-20 January 2013, unpaginated, p. 74, fig. 68.



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