Lot 53
  • 53

Follower of Gérard Douffet

bidding is closed

Description

  • Gérard Douffet
  • cimon and pero ('caritas romana')
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Dr. W. van Gelderen (according to a label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Dordrecht, Mak, 5 May 1956, lot 115 (as Werner van den Valckert), where bought by the late husband of the present owner.

Exhibited

Pretoria, Art Museum, cat. no. 54 (as Werner van den Valckert; on loan from Dr. W. van Gelderen). 

Catalogue Note

A similar composition of better quality is in Schloß Weissenstein, Pommersfelden which is tentatively attributed to Douffet (see B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford 1979, vol. I, p. 103, no. 651, reproduced vol. II, fig. 651).