Aert de Gelder* (1645-1727)

The Archangel Raphael

Details

Aert de Gelder* (1645-1727)
Gelder, A.
The Archangel Raphael
oil on canvas
20 x 17in. (53 x 43cm.)

Provenance

H.F. de Court Onderwater, Dubbeldam, sale, Mak, Dordrecht, Nov. 18-20, 1958, lot 22, as Rembrandt.
Major F.H.T. Jervoise; Sotheby's, London, May 26, 1965, lot 134, as Rembrandt.
Private collection, London.

Literature

D.R. van Fossen, The Paintings of Aert de Gelder, unpublished PhD dissertation, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, 1969, no. 65.
J.W. von Moltke, Arent de Gelder; Dordrecht 1645-1727, 1994, p. 94, no. 73, pl. 73.

Lot Essay

The present work was long thought to be by Rembrandt, as indicated by the old collection labels on the reverse, but as van Fossen and von Moltke have indicated, it is a typical example of de Gelder's work, probably painted around 1680-5.