Lot 433
  • 433

Salomon Koninck Amsterdam 1609 - 1656

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Salomon Koninck
  • Esther's Banquet
  • signed lower left
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Probably London Art Market, 1920 (according to Hofstede de Groot, see Literature below);
Mrs. Catherine Georgina Brandt of Ellerbrook, Hale, Cheshire;
By whose Estate sold, London, Christie's, December 19, 1930, lot 49 (as F. Bol) for £42 to Webb;
With D. Vaarties, Rotterdam, by 1934;
With D. Katz, Dieren;
By whom sold to Goudstikker Miedl, August 7, 1940 (inv. no. 5592);
By whom sold to Brands, Tilburg (storage), June 18, 1943;
G. Donaldson, London;
With B. Katz, Dieren, 1956;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, December 21, 1960, lot 114 (as Simon de Koninck);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, December 8, 1993, lot 283;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private Collector, Sold Without Reserve"), New York, Sotheby's, January 24, 2002, lot 8, there purchased by the present collector.

Exhibited

Leiden, Lekenhal, Rembrandt als Leermeester, 1956, no. 62.

Literature

Probably C. Hofstede de Groot, in Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, ed. U. Thieme and F. Becker, vol. XXI, 1927, p. 275, "Haman vor Ahaswer und Esther";
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnunger, 1934, vol. II, p. XIV, pl. 8;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1979, vol. I, p. 550;
A. Blankert, in Rembrandt's Pupils and Followers in the Seventeenth Century. The Impact of a Genius, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1983, p. 164;
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. III, p. 1645, cat. no. 1103, reproduced p. 1677.

Catalogue Note

This painting is similar in composition and style to Koninck's depiction of The Sacrifice of Manoah in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.