Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562-1638)

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Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562-1638)

Apollo as Sol

with remnants of an inscription '9'
on panel
13 x 8 7/8in. (33 x 22cm.)

Provenance

Probably the picture listed in the 1627 Rotterdam inventory of the artist Herman Saftleven I, together with a pendant 'Een Sol, Een Luna'
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 21 Feb. 1962, lot 13, as indistinctly signed and dated 1598

Literature

(Probably) F. D. O. Obreen, Archief voor Nederlandsche Kunstgeschiedenis, V, Rotterdam, 1879, p. 117
J. L. McGee, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562-1638), Patrons, Friends and Dutch Humanists, in Bibliotheca Humanistica and Reformatorica, vol. XLVIII, 1991, pp. 287-8, fig. 93

Engraved

Jacob Matham (Bartsch 95)

Lot Essay

The present picture, together with its lost pendant depicting Diana as Luna (Bartsch, 96), served as models for engravings by Jacob Matham. Dr. P. J. J. van Thiel dates the present picture and the print c. 1591 on stylistic grounds, by comparison with a Saint Sebastian and a Bust of a Man with tossed Head (McGee, op. cit., figs. 43 and 259).

We are grateful to Dr. van Thiel for his assistance in cataloguing this lot and for confirming the attribution

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