Attributed to Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693)

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Attributed to Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693)

Saul visiting the Witch of Endor (I Sam. 28)

brush and grey wash, grey ink framing lines
114 x 134 mm.

Provenance

with Borzo, Den Bosch, 1972

Literature

W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1984, 8, no. 1849ax

Exhibited

Fribourg/Passau/Trier/Aachen/Nuremberg, 1982/4, no. 62 (as N. Maes)

Lot Essay

The attribution was first suggested by Dr. Karel Boon and confirmed by Professor Werner Sumowski. He dates this to circa 1653, and relates this drawing to one in the Weisgall Collection (op.cit., no. 1849x) and one of Vertumnus and Pomona formerly in the De Gier Collection (op.cit., no. 1954x). The attribition has since been doubted

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