Salomon de Bray Amsterdam 1597 - 1664 Haarlem

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Description

Salomon de Bray
The Supper at Emmaus
signed and dated lower left: Sd Bray 166[2?]... (Sd in compendium)
oil on oak panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, 15 March 1926, lot 56 (as Dirk van Santvoort);
With W. Paech, Amsterdam, circa 1940;
Vermunt, Berlin, 1942 (as Dirk van Santvoort);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1997, lot 23, for £55,000;
With Robert Noortman, Maastricht, from whom bought by the previous owner.

Catalogue Note

This painting was formerly thought to be by the Amsterdam painter Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort (1610-1680), perhaps due to a mis-reading of the signature. It is a late work by De Bray, comparable to the Expulsion of Hagar of 1662 sold in these Rooms, 25 June 1969, lot 60. The dramatic use of chiaroscuro suggests that De Bray must have seen the earlier work of Rembrandt in Amsterdam.