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Salomon Koninck

David and Bathsheba mourning their dead son

Lot Closed

October 22, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Salomon Koninck

Amsterdam 1609 - 1656

David and Bathsheba mourning their dead son


oil on panel

panel: 33⅜ by 28¾ in.; 84.8 by 73 cm.

framed: 41⅞ by 37¼ in.; 106.4 by 94.6 cm. 

Possibly, Lodewijk van Ludick I, Amsterdam;
Chevalier Antoine de la Roque (1672-1744), Paris;
His posthumous sale, Paris, 1-28 April 1745, lot 60 (as by a student of Rembrandt, 59 livres to Chartier);
With Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, Paris, by 1780;
By whom sold in Amsterdam by 1792;
With Ehrich Galleries, New York, before 1953;
Private collection, United States;
Acquired by the present owner in 2006.  
Possibly, A. Houbraken, De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen...zijnde een vervolg op het schilderboek van K. van Mander, 'sGravenhage 1718, vol. I, p. 344 (as in the collection of Lodewijk van Ludick, who sold it to the Portugese Ambassador);
J.-B.-P. Le Brun, Galerie des Peintres Flamands, Hollandais et Allemands, Paris 1792, vol. 2, no. 16 (as Salomon Koning, engraving reproduced);
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Amsterdam, 1906, v.1, p.326 (as known only from the engraving);
Possibly, H. Gerson, Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Amsterdam 1983, p. 529;
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau 1987, vol. III, p. 1630, note 3;
B. Ducos, Rembrandt, Bethsabée tenant la lettre du roi David, Paris 2006, pp. 9-10, reproduced fig. 5 (erroneously listed as on canvas). 

ENGRAVED:
J. Spline, for Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, 1792.