Lot 59
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FOLLOWER OF GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT | The Raising of Jairus' Daughter

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Raising of Jairus' Daughter
  • Unframed: 32.8 x 46.6 cm.; 12 7/8  x 18 3/8  in.
oil on oak panel, unframed This painting is a copy based on a work datable to 'circa' 1663 by the Amsterdam artist, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, today in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (inv. no. 804).1 Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt, and painted in the style of his master particularly when depicting Biblical subjects such as this. His original painting was engraved in 1767 in the opposite sense by George Friedrich Schmidt, and it would appear that the present copy was based on this since it is also executed in reverse of Eeckhout's painting.2 The story of Jairus' daughter conflates the accounts of Jesus' miracles in the gospels of Mark (5:21-43), Matthew (9:18-26) and Luke (8:40-56). Jairus, a leader of a synagogue in Galilee, appeals to Jesus to heal his 12-year-old daughter. When Jesus is told on his way there that the girl has died, he responds: 'Be not afraid, only believe', and proceeds to the house, informing those present that she is not dead but merely asleep. Jesus says to Jairus' daughter: 'Little girl, I say unto thee, arise', and she is restored to life. 1 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/2457422 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/245726

Condition

All paintings available to view at the Sotheby’s Greenford Park warehouse, 5 - 7 and 10 – 13 September (10 - 4pm), by appointment. The panel is uncradled, flat and stable. There is a loss in the panel in the lower left corner 7.5 cm. long, and the uppermost left corner is also missing. There are small paint losses along all four margins, and small areas where the varnish has been removed in and around Christ's head, that of the figure on the right, and in the green table cloth by the bed. The paint surface is dirty and the varnish is thick and discoloured. There is also some bitumenisation in the dark background, left, and on the surface the marks of bubble wrap. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a thick and milky varnish beneath which it is impossible to discern any other intervention.
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