Abraham van Dijck

C. van Hardenberg, Utrecht;

His sale, Utrecht, on the premises at his home, 21 September 1802, lot 19, for 71 florins, to La Maine;

D.G. van der Burgh van Kronenburg, Kronenberg Castle, Loenen;

His posthumous sale, Loenen, 6 September 1824, lot 83, for 165 florins, to Belaards;

With Douwes Brothers, Amsterdam, by November 1924;

With Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin, by April 1929;

Richard Semmel (1875–1950), Berlin, by 1930;

With Galerie Moritz Schönemann, Berlin;

Fritz Beindorff (1860–1944), Hannover;

Kunstsammlung der Pelikan-Werke, Hannover, by 1935 (on extended loan to the Landesgalerie des Landesmuseums Hannover, from 1951);

Where acquired by the Niedersächsische Zahlenlotto GmbH, Hannover, in 1983 (loan to the Landesmuseum Hannover continued);

Restituted to the heirs of Richard Semmel in 2020 (loan to the Landesmuseum Hannover continued).

Berlin, Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs, April–May 1929, no. 48 (as Nicolaes Maes);

Schaffhausen, Museum Allerheiligen and Zurich, Atlantis, Rembrandt und seine Zeit, 1949, no. 77 (as attributed to Nicolaes Maes, but probably by Abraham van Dijck);

Essen, Villa Hügel, Kunstwerke aus Kirchen-, Museums- und Privatbesitz, 1953, no. 7 (as Nicolaes Maes);

Hannover, Kunstverein, Die Pelikan-Kunstsammlung, 28 April – 16 June 1963, no. 14 (as attributed to Nicolaes Maes).

C. Hofstede de Groot, 'A newly discovered Nicolaes Maes', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 56, no. 263, February 1925, pp. 82 and 87, reproduced (as Nicolaes Maes);

W. von Bode, Kunst und Künstler, vol. 23, 1925, p. 201, reproduced p. 202 (as Nicolaes Maes, Die Schwiegermutter des Künstlers (The artist's mother-in-law));

Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs, exh. cat., Berlin 1929, p. 22, no. 48, reproduced pl. 18 (as Nicolaes Maes);

P. Wescher, 'Die gemälde der sammlung Semmel – Berlin', in Pantheon, vol. 5, June 1930, p. 278, reproduced p. 276 (as Nicolaes Maes);

Rembrandt und seine Zeit, exh. cat., 1949, p. 51, no. 77 (as attributed to Nicolaes Maes, but probably by Abraham van Dijck);

H. Gerson, 'Die Ausstellung holländischer Bilder in Schaffhausen', in Cicerone, vol. I, 1949, p. 23 (as Abraham van Dijck);

G. von der Osten, Katalog der Germälde Alter Meister in der Niedersächsischen Landesgalerie Hannover, Kataloge der Niedersächsische Landsgalerie I, Hannover 1954, p. 83, no. 168 (as attributed to Nicolaes Maes);

Die Pelikan-Kunstsammlung, exh. cat., Hannover 1963, p. 26, no. 14, reproduced p. 42 (as attributed to Nicolaes Maes);

M. Trudzinski, Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Gemälde in der Niedersächsischen Landesgalerie Hannover, Hannover 1980, p. 51 (as Abraham van Dijck);

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau 1983–4, vol. I, pp. 666–67 and 671, no. 371, reproduced in colour p. 692; vol. II, p. 1175, under no. 793; vol. III, p. 2022, under no. 1367 (as Abraham van Dijck);

H.W. Grohn, 'Die Übernahme der Pelikan-Kunstsammlung in Hannover', in Weltkunst, vol. 54, no. 1, 1984, p. 704;

M. Trudzinski, Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Gemälde in der Niedersächsischen Landesgalerie Hannover, Hannover 1989, p. 61 (as Abraham van Dijck);

D. de Witt, Abraham van Dijck: life and work of a late Rembrandt pupil, c. 1635–1680, Zwolle 2020, pp. 110–11, no. P27, reproduced in colour (as Abraham van Dijck).

Although this painting was deemed the work of Nicolaes Maes in the early twentieth century (see Literature), it can confidently be attributed to Abraham van Dijck and bears close resemblance to Van Dijck's picture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, datable c. 1655.¹

Please note that this property is sold pursuant to its restitution to the heirs of Richard Semmel.

¹ Inv. no. G 1593; oil on canvas, 37.7 x 36.9 cm.; https://sammlung.mdbk.de/detail/collection/eff707db-3a1d-44e7-9e2c-102a0d86f7d1.