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JAN VICTORS (AMSTERDAM 1619- AFTER 1676 EAST INDIES)

Lot 42
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 887541
Lot 42 | JAN VICTORS (AMSTERDAM 1619- AFTER 1676 EAST INDIES)
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
JAN VICTORS (AMSTERDAM 1619- AFTER 1676 EAST INDIES)

Ruth and Boaz

signed and dated 'Jan Victors 1653' (lower right, on a wooden box)

oil on canvas

71 3/8 x 87 1/2 in. (181.2 x 222.5 cm.)





Provenance

S.G. Davies; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1951, lot 60, where sold for 76 gns. to the following,

with Herner Wengraf, London, probably on behalf of C.E. Dix.

with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London; Christie’s, London, 26 November 1971, lot 90 (2,400 gns. to Leadbeater).

with Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, by 1972.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 1994, lot 69, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

‘Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Supplement’, The Burlington Magazine, XCIV, no. 597, December 1952, n.p., no. XV, pl. XV.

‘Front Matter’, The Burlington Magazine, CXVIII, May 1976, no. 878, p. xl, illustrated.

E. Zafran, ‘Jan Victors and the Bible’, The Israel Museum News, no. 12, August 1977, pp. 112, 116 and 120, no. 66, fig. 29.

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, IV, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, pp. 2605, 2656, no. 1757, illustrated.

D. Miller, 'Jan Victors, 1619-1676', Ph.D. dissertation, 1985, pp. 80, 303, no. A68, illustrated.

D. Miller, 'Ruth and Noami of 1653: An Unpublished Painting by Jan Victors', The Hoogsteder Mercury 2, 1985, pp. 20, 26, fig. 5, note 6.

V. Manuth, 'Ikonographische Studien zu den Historien des Alten Testaments bei Rembrandt und siener frühen Amsterdammer Schule: Mit einem Katalog der biblischen Gemälde des Jan Victors, 1619-um 1676', Ph.D. dissertation, 1987, no. 45, fig. 153.



Exhibited

New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Old Masters and Modern Environment, 11 April-5 May 1972, no. 21.

Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center, The Bible Through Dutch Eyes, 9 April-23 May 1976, no. 40.

New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., 15th to 20th Century Masters, 1976.

Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., The Biblical Image, 9 December 1988-January 1989.



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This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Jan Victors (1619 - 1676)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
Auction house category:Paintings
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