ID 887541 
Lot 42  | JAN VICTORS (AMSTERDAM 1619- AFTER 1676 EAST INDIES)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000 
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D. Miller, 'Ruth and Noami of 1653: An Unpublished Painting by Jan Victors', The Hoogsteder Mercury 2, 1985, pp. 20, 26, fig. 5, note 6.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.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Artist: | Jan Victors (1619 - 1676) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
| Artist: | Jan Victors (1619 - 1676) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
| Address of auction | 
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