An Italianate Landscape with an Unidentified Subject from the Old Testament

• An Italianate Landscape with an Unidentified Subject from the Old Testament
• Jesse presenting his son David to the prophet Samuel (former title)

SK-A-4825

Italianiserend landschap met een oudtestamentisch onderwerp. Weids landschap met hier en daar heuvels met bouwwerken en met links en rechts herders met vee. In het midden staan drie hoofdfiguren voor een kudde schapen.

signature, lower left, on a rock, with monogram: ‘C·P·F’

painter: Cornelis van Poelenburch (mentioned on object)

c. 1620 - c. 1627

oil on copper

• support: height 22 cm x width 33.4 cm
• outer size: depth 3 cm (support incl. frame)

• purchase 1983
• interne vervaardiging 1983

Public domain

…; sale, Marguerite Helen, Countess Nelson, née O’Sullivan (?-1969), London (Sotheby’s), 30 April 1958, no. 61, as _Joseph Relating his Dreams to the Shepherds_, £ 60, to Thornton;…; anonymous sale (†), London (Phillips), 10 May 1983, no. 67, as _The Young David Meeting with Isaiah and Saul_, £ 6,500, to S. Nystad Oude Kunst, The Hague; from whom, fl. 125,000, to the museum, 1983

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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