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拍品專文
Beschey joined the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp in 1753, having been a pupil of Peter Strick, and was elected its dean for 1755-6. In 1754 he was made director of the Antwerp academy, where, using his influential position, he sought to revive traditional practices through the study of Rubens. Beschey excelled in portraiture, using both oils (e.g. Self-portrait, 1763; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten) and pastels (e.g. Portrait of the artist M. J. Geeraerts; idem). He was best known, however, for his history paintings, for example the series on The Life of Joseph (1744; idem), The Immaculate Conception (Leuven, Stadhuis), The Five Senses (St. Petersburg, Hermitage) and Flora and Pomona (Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts). An art dealer as well as an artist, Beschey died in Antwerp after catching pneumonia at a sale in Brussels.
The subject is recounted in the Gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke; the present picture appears from the gestures of Christ and the ruler to derive from Luke's account (XVIII: 18-30), and depicts the moment when Christ, having told him that he must sell all that he owned and distribute it to the poor in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, says: 'How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.'
The subject is recounted in the Gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke; the present picture appears from the gestures of Christ and the ruler to derive from Luke's account (XVIII: 18-30), and depicts the moment when Christ, having told him that he must sell all that he owned and distribute it to the poor in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, says: 'How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.'