Jacob van Spreeuwen Leiden 1609/10 - after 1658

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Description

Jacob van Spreeuwen
Bathsheba
signed and dated lower right: I. V. Spreuwe/ A. 1633
oil on oak panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Zurich, Galerie Koller, 24 March 2004, lot 3019.

Literature

K. Bauch, Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit. Studien zur geschichtlichen Bedeutung seines Frühstils, Berlin 1960, pp. 225-6, reproduced fig. 187;
E.J. Sluijter, in the exhibition catalogue, Leidse Fijnschilders, Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 1988, p. 225;
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. IV, p. 2561, no. 1698.

Catalogue Note

The subject is taken from the second Book of Samuel (11.4).