Lot 216
  • 216

Leonaert Bramer

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Leonaert Bramer
  • Dives, tormented by demons in Hell, watches as Lazarus is taken to Abraham by Angels
  • signed with initials lower left: L.B.
  • oil on panel, unframed
  • 79 by 106 cm

Provenance

Prince Johann Adam of Liechtenstein (1690-1732) (but then left the Princely Collections after 1733);
With Franz Goldmann, Vienna;
Acquired from the above by Prince Johann I. of Liechtenstein (1760-1836) in 1820.

Literature

J. Falke, Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 150, no. 1304;
J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 43, no. 304;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, p. 73, no. 304; 
J. ten Brink Goldsmith, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674. Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, Delft 1994, pp. 54-55, fig. 9.

Condition

The flat, stable support consists of 4 horizontal panels joined to the reverse with a series of vertical batons. The paint surface is thinned and much abraded, as visible in the catalogue illustration, and under a dirty varnish. Inspection under UV light is impeded by the aforementioned varnish although some old retouching and repainting work is just evident. Offered unframed.
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