Details
Pieter Lastman (c. 1583-1633)
Jephthah welcomed Home from the Battlefield by his Daughter
on panel
48 x 78½in. (122 x 199.5cm.)
Provenance
Probably the picture by the artist of this subject listed in the inventory of J. Looten, Dijkgraaf, Beemster, of 13 June 1676 (according to Freise, loc. cit.)
Willem Six, Burgomaster of Amsterdam; (+) sale, Schoemaker-ten Brink, Amsterdam, 12 May 1734, lot 137 (9.10 florins to Cornelis van Essen)
Gildemeester, Dordrecht
Van der Aa, St. Nicolas
J. L. Menke, Antwerp; sale, Heberle, Cologne, 27 Oct. 1890, lot 47 (260 marks)
I. Traugott, Stockholm
Professor Folke Odquist, Djursholm, 1974
with S. Nijstad, The Hague, 1980-1
Literature
G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, I, The Hague, 1752, p. 417, no. 136
C. Vosmaer, Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, ses précurseurs et ses années d'apprentissage, The Hague, 1863, p. 177, no. 4
C. Vosmaer, Rembrandt, Sa vie et ses oeuvres, 2nd ed., The Hague, 1877, p. 474, no. 6
K. Freise, Pieter Lastman, sein Leben und seine Kunst, Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, V, Leipzig, 1911, p. 39, no. 23A (as 'signed lower left P. Lastm. f.')
C. Müller(-Hofstede), Beitrage zur Geschichte des biblischen Historienbildes im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Ph.D. dissertation, Berlin, 1925, p. 94
A. Pigler, Barockthemen. Eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, I, Budapest, 1974, p. 120 A. Tümpel, Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, Oud Holland, LXXXIIX, 1974, pp. 43 and 45, fig. 56 and p. 254, under no. 65
G. Schwartz, Rembrandt: zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, Maarsen, 1984, p. 31
C. Tümpel (ed.), catalogue of the exhibition, Het Oude Testament in de Schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw, Zwolle, 1991, pp. 68-9, fig. 53
Exhibited
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Holländska mästare i svensk ägo, 1967, p. 76, no. 84, illustrated p. 56 (detail)
Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2 Nov. 1980-4 Jan. 1981, Detroit Institute of Arts, 16 Feb.-19 April 1981, and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 18 May-19 July 1981, Gods, Saints and Heroes. Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt, pp. 126-7, no. 20, illustrated
The Hague, Mauritshuis, Terugzien in bewondering. A Collectors' Choice, 19 Feb.-9 March 1982, pp. 140-1, no. 50, illustrated
Leyden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, on loan
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 30 Oct. 1987-10 Jan. 1988, Zürich, Kunsthaus, 3 March-24 April 1988, and Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 18 May-17 July 1988, Triumph und Tod des Helden, pp. 173-4, no. 4, illustrated
Amsterdam, Het Rembrandthuis, Pieter Lastman, the man who taught Rembrandt, 7 Dec. 1991-16 Feb. 1992, pp. 86-7, no. 1, illustrated in colour
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, 15 April-7 June 1992, Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 13 June-2 Aug. 1992, and Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 7 Aug.-16 Sept. 1992, Rembrandt. His teachers and his pupils, pp. 82, no. 13, and 226, illustrated in colour
