Lot Essay
This picture is stylistically closely comparable, for example in the physiognomies, the handling of the drapery or the rendition of the putti, to the Resurrection of Christ by Seghers, formerly the main altar of the Jesuit Church at Kortrijk (or Courtrai), and now in the Louvre, Paris (see D. Bieneck, Gerard Seghers 1591-1651, Leben und Werk des Antwerpener Historienmalers, Lingen, 1992, pp. 267-9, illustrated). Datable to 1620 (and paid for in 1624), that work shows Seghers relatively early in his career, when working under the influence of both Caravaggio and Abraham Janssen.