Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert Durgerdam 1591 - 1655 Amsterdam

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Description

Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert
the sacrifice of manoah
signed with monogram and indistinctly dated lower right: CL M 16..
oil on canvas

Provenance

Count Otto Thott (died 1785), Gavnoe Castle, Denmark, thence by descent at Gavnoe Castle to Baron Axel Reedtz-Thott, by whom sold, London, Christie's, 2 July 1976, lot 27 (for £ 2.000).

Exhibited

Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, The Art of Collecting, 22 January-22 February 1987.

Literature

J. Lange, Baroniet Gavntøoes Malerisamling, 1876, no. 1 (as School of Rembrandt);
K. Madsen & O. Andrup, Malerisamling paa Gavnøoe, 1914, no. 107;
K. Madsen, 'Malerisamling paa Gavnøoe', in: Kunstmuseets Aarskrift, 4, 1917, pp. 57-9, reproduced;
A. Tümpel, 'Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert', in: Oud Holland, vol. 88, 1974, p. 119, cat. no. 66, reproduced fig. 166;
M.G. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh: The Paintings, Berlin/New York 1981, p. 87, cat. no. 221, reproduced p. 87;
R. Mühlberger, The Bible in Art. The Old Testament, New York 1991, p. 108, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

According to Tümpel (see Literature below) this is a late work by the artist, datable to the late 1640s or early 1650s.