Paul healing a man who could not walk

• Paul healing a man who could not walk
• Paul Healing the Cripple in Lystra

Paul Healing the Cripple in Lystra

SK-A-4922

signature and date: ‘K. du. Iardin fe ..63’

Du Jardin not only painted landscapes with Italian flair, but also large history paintings inspired by Italian examples. Here, the Apostle Paul towers above a group of sick people. When he heals the feet of a man in the name of the Christian god in Lystra, a city in contemporary Turkey, the onlookers take him to be the heathen god Mercury. Du Jardin understood the art of using figural gestures to enhance the pathos and drama of a scene.

B.J. Broos, 'Karel du Jardin 'Paul healing the crippled man at Lystra', 1663', Biuletyn Historii Sztuki 3-4 (1997), p. 218-225 met afb.

painter: Karel du Jardin

1663

olieverf op doek

• height 204 cm x width 165 cm x thickness 8 cm
• height 179 cm x width 139 cm x depth 9 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting

purchase 1997-01-31

Public domain

…; sale, M. le Chevalier W. Gockinga†, de Groningue et al.[section 'M. le Chevalier W. Gockinga'] Amsterdam (Van Pappelendam & Schouten), 14 August 1883 sqq., no. 34, fl. 3,000, to Jan Christiaan van Hattum van Ellewoutsdijk (1837-1909), Sliedrecht;{Copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1894-1912;{Note RMA.} by descent through the family Van Hattum van Ellewoutsdijk;{According to the catalogue for the anonymous sale, 11 December 1987, London (Sotheby's), no. 29.} anonymous sale [section 'The Van Hattum Family of Ellewoutsdijk, Zeeland'], London (Christie´s), 11 December 1987, no. 29, £ 341,000;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Princeton, New Jersey;{Kilian 2005, p. 191, no. 91.} …; sale, Mr and Mrs George Brage et al. [section 'Property of a Private Collector'], New York (Christie´s), 31 January 1997, no. 44, $ 442,500, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum Stichting {Provenance reconstructed in Jansen 1997.}

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.

• B.J. Broos, 'Karel du Jardin 'Paul healing the crippled man at Lystra', 1663', Biuletyn Historii Sztuki 3-4 (1997), p. 218-225 met afb.
• 'Berichten en mededeelingen', De Nederlandsche Spectator (1883), p. 251, 267.
• Catalogue de tableaux anciens provenant de la collection de feu m. le Chevalier W. Gockinga, de Groninque, Amsterdam (Van Pappelendam & Schouten), 14 augustus 1883, p. 10, nr. 34 [handexemplaar Bredius, RKD]
• A. Bredius, 'De nalatenschap van Carel du Jardin', Oud Holland 24 (1906), p. 224.
• Inv.nr. 581; Brievenboek 1894, nr. 116-118 [documenatiearchief Mauritshuis (Den Haag)].
• Gerda Telgenhof, 'Rijksmuseum koop Dujardin', NRC, 6 maart 1997.
• 'Recent acquisitions at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam', The Burlington Magazine (November 2000), p. 729 met afb. I.
• Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten XXIV (1948), p. 114, 119 met afb.
• Jaarverslag 1997, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, p. 34-37 met afb.
• G.M.C. Jansen, 'Paulus geneest de kreupele man te Lystra', Bulletin Vereniging Rembrandt 7 (1997) 3, p. 24-26 met afb.
• Documentatiemap.

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