Theagenes and Chariclea

Theagenes and Chariclea

SK-A-4668

Theagenes en Chariclea. Op een rotsachtige kust liggen enkele mannen gedood of gewond door pijlen, rechts zit een vrouw met een boog. Voor de kust ligt een schip voor anker, bovenop de heuvel komt een groep soldaten aangelopen. Scène uit de Aethiopica van Heliodorus.

signature, with monogram, bottom right, on a stone: ‘ D.T.’

painter: Daniel Thivart

c. 1646 - c. 1657

oil on panel

• height 47.1 cm x width 52.8 cm
• depth 8 cm

• purchase 1975
• purchase 2015-07-15
• interne vervaardiging 1975
• interne vervaardiging 2015-07-15

Public domain

…; ? probate inventory, Daniel Wulfraet, Amsterdam, 13 February 1673 (‘een Theagenes en Chariklea van Daniel Tievaert’), fl. 18;{Note RMA.}…; ? anonymous sale, London (Robinson, Fisher and Harding), 11 November 1937, no. 99, as B. Cuyp;{A note on the mount in the RKD states that this is the painting in the Rijksmuseum. Daan Cevat wrote a letter on 16 October 1977 stating that he bought the panel in London; file RMA.}…; the dealer N. Cevat, Amsterdam, 1938, 1939;{Note RMA; Hofstede de Groot in U. Thieme and F. Becker (eds.), _Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart_, XXXIII, Leipzig 1939, p. 38.} ? from whom, to Maassen;{Letter Daan Cevat, 16 October 1977; file RMA.}…; from G. van Marselius Hartsinck-Veldhuizen van Zanten, Haarlem, fl. 7,000, to the museum, 1975

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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