Attributed to Jan Swart van Groningen (active circa 1520-1558)

MONDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1993 Catalogue All sales subject to the conditions printed in this catalogue Estimates. Please see under Special Information EVENING SESSION AT 7.00 P.M. PRECISELY (Lots 1 - 195) DUTCH AND FLEMISH OLD MASTER DRAWINGS

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Attributed to Jan Swart van Groningen (active circa 1520-1558)

Achan burying the stolen Goods (Joshua 7,1)

numbered '2' twice (recto) and inscribed '2 Hier graeft Acham tghestolen guet mar god siet al wat hy duet mar niet verdeckt voer gods oghen hy siet tserzeet van onsen moet en sal eens wreeken myt der spoet dat hy nu schynt ghedoghen,'(verso); pen and brown ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark high crown
290 x 244 mm.

Provenance

Purchased from the Carey sale, 1838, lot 321, as Maerten van Heemskerck, according to an inscription on a label (verso)
T. Kerrich

Lot Essay

It has been suggested that this could be an early work by Swart, when he was still under the influence of Maerten van Heemskerck, this is most apparent in the figure of Achan.
Kerrich was the author of the first catalogue of the work of Maerten van Heemskerck, published in 1829, and may have regarded the present lot as by the artist

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