PIETER FRIS | Noli me tangere

Eda F. Walton, London;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's 14 October 1983, lot 66 (as School of Rembrandt);

With Galerie Holzapfel, Cologne, 1984 (when advertised in Die Weltkunst, vol. LIV, 15 September 1984, pp. 2396-98, reproduced);

W. Wilhelms, Gengenbach;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 18 November 1985, lot 34, where acquired.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Jezus in de Gouden Eeuw, 9 September 2000 – 7 January 2001, unnumbered.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. V, p. 3101, cat. no. 2089, reproduced in colour p. 3222;

A. Blankert et al, Jezus in de Gouden Eeuw, exh. cat., Zwolle and Rotterdam 2000, p. 153, reproduced in colour;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 156-60, cat. no. 23, reproduced in colour.

This painting is one of very few known works by Pieter Fris, of whose life we also know little, save that he was a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Haarlem, and is recorded in Rotterdam between 1660 and 1682.