De grootmoedigheid van Scipio

De grootmoedigheid van Scipio

RP-T-1997-42

inscription: ‘Schipio den Roomschen Burgemeester geefd de gevangen bruyd wederom aan haaren Bruydegom [...] geschidert voor Mevrouw de Weduwe Baalde’

draftsman (artist): Philip Tidemann

1667 - 1705

Pen in bruin, penseel in grijs, kaderlijn met de pen in bruin

• height 192 mm x width 193 mm
• height 199 mm x width 249 mm

purchase 1997

Public domain

… ; collection Boguslaw Jolles (d. 1912), Dresden and Vienna (L. 381); his sale, Munich (H. Helbin), 28 October 1895 sqq., no. 334, as Gerard de Lairesse (‘Scipio Africanus gibt Allucius seine Braut wieder. H. 24,7, B. 19,8 cm. Feder- und Tuschzeichnung. Unter der Zeichnung fünfzeilige Schrift mit Angabe, dass das Bild für Mevrouw de Weduwe Baalde gemalt wurde.’), DM 5, to Dr Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942), Fürth, Bavaria;^[Copy RMA]; from whom confiscated, 1938; anonymous sale, Munich (A. Weinmüller), 9 March 1939 sqq., no. 292, as Gerard de Lairesse (‘Die Grossmut des Scipio, Feder u. Tusche. Unten Schriftzeilen. 24,5 : 20.’); …; collection Richard Holtkott (1866-1950), Bedburg, near Cologne (L. 4266); his widow, Elsa Graber (d. 1956), Bedburg, near Cologne; her sons, Alfred Holtkott (1903-80), Cologne, and Walter Holtkott (1916-96), Cologne; anonymous sale, Cologne (Lempertz), 6 December 1997, no. 1536, as Gerard de Lairesse, DM 1900, to the museum

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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