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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff

Barent Fabritius

The Circumcision

Auction Closed

December 4, 01:51 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff 


Barent Fabritius

Midden-Beemster, near Hoorn 1624–1673 Amsterdam

The Circumcision


oil on oak panel

unframed: 45.8 x 45.8 cm.; 18 x 18 in.

framed: 67.7 x 67.2 cm.; 26⅝ x 26½ in.

Dr Hans A. Wetzlar (1894–1976), Amsterdam, by 1952; 

Captain Eric C. Palmer, M.C. (1907–1959), Wooburn Green, by 1953;

With K. & V. Waterman, Amsterdam, by 1992;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 December 1999, lot 159, for £18,000;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);

Thence by inheritance.

Delft, Het Prinsenhof, Prisma der bijbelse kunst, 1952, no. 37;

London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Rembrandt's Influence in the 17th Century, 1953, no. 28;

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Rembrandt als Leermeester, 1956, no. 42.

M.J. Friedländer, Collection Dr. H. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1952, p. 12, no. 30, reproduced fig. 9 (as possibly signed, centre-right);

H. Gerson (ed.), Rembrandt's Influence in the 17th Century, London 1953, no. 28, reproduced in colour;

D. Pont, Barent Fabritius 1624–1673, The Hague 1958, pp. 17 and 107–108, no. 14, reproduced fig. 9;

W. Sumowski, 'Rezension von: D. Pont, Barent Fabritius', in Kunstchronik, vol. XII, 1959, p. 288;

W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1979, vol. IV, p. 1810;

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, vol. II, p. 934 (with false monogram centre-right).