The Presentation in the Temple

Details

Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634-1693 Amsterdam)
The Presentation in the Temple
pen and brown ink, brown wash, countermark V, brown ink framing line at left margin
93 x 137 mm.

Provenance

Probably George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie (1739-1787).
The Earls of Dalhousie (L. 717a), until 1922.
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1922.
K.H. Steinmeyer.
Dr. M.K.H. Rech (L. 2745b).
With Galerie Jourdan, Frankfurt.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 21 November 1989, lot 39 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-129).

Literature

W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 8, New York, 1984, no. 1848x.
W. Robinson, 'Nicolaes Maes as a draughtsman', Master Drawings, XXVII (1989), p. 156, fig. 30.
W. Robinson, The early works of Nicolaes Maes, 1653 to 1661, [unpublished doctoral thesis], Harvard, 1996, pp. 134-5, notes 105 and 106, p. 319, no. 11, and fig. III-29.

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Lot Essay

Bill Robinson notes that the present sheet is an early study for an elaborate finished drawing now in the Albertina, Vienna, W. Robinson, op. cit., p. 156. At least four other studies for the composition are known, a double-sided sheet in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, and in private collections in Great Neck, New York and Munich, W. Sumowski, op. cit., nos. 1794x, 1847x, 1849x and 1850x. As with the majority of Maes' drawings, this series can be dated to the decade following his arrival in Rembrandt's studio in about 1650.

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