Lot Essay
Three other versions of the composition are known: one, which may be a copy, in the Museo dei Benedettini, Catania, and two others in the Longhi and Bartolini Collections, Florence
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
Mathias Stomer (c. 1600-c. 1650)
Details
Mathias Stomer (c. 1600-c. 1650)
Tobit curing his Father's Blindness
59 x 78¾in. (150 x 200cm.)
Tobit curing his Father's Blindness
59 x 78¾in. (150 x 200cm.)
Provenance
Frank Hall Standish, Duxbury Hall, by whom bequeathed in 1841 with the whole of his collection and library to King Louis-Philippe of France; given to the Louvre but restored to the king as his private property after the revolution of 1848 and sold by his heirs, Christie's, 28 May 1853, lot 64, as 'Esteban March' (5½ gns. to Scanlon).
Van den Bergh.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 25 June 1984, lot 3326 (FF 250,000).
Van den Bergh.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 25 June 1984, lot 3326 (FF 250,000).
Literature
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, I, p. 181, no. 1561 (4)
Exhibited
Paris, Hôtel Charpentier, Exposition rétrospective d'Art ancien espagnol, 6 June-6 July 1925, no. 20, illustrated, as 'School of Seville'