The deposition

Details

Thomas de Keyser (1596/7-1667)
The deposition
dated '1635.F' (lower left)
oil on panel
92 x 69.3 cm.

Provenance

with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1924.
with P. de boer, Amsterdam, 1929.

Literature

A.J. Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser (1596/7-1667): A study in Portraiture in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Diss., Cambridge (Mass.), 1985, I/II, pp. 397-8 and 401; III, pp. 117-8, no. 62.
Idem, in J. Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, London, 1996, 18, p. 11.

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Sale room notice

Please note that there is additional exhibition reference:
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Bijbelsekunst, 8 July - 8 October 1939, no. 112, fig.15.

Lot Essay

This picture is one of a pair with a Resurrection, signed and dated 1635 (Anon. Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 14 June 1941, lot 47). In all likelihood, the two pictures were either a pair or a part of a series - it is possible that a Golgotha (Pushkin Museum, Moscow) dated 1637 is part of the same group. Ann Jensen Adams (1985, loc. cit.), records three copies of the present picture: that with Vlaicu Lonescu, Middletown, New Jersey, 1982, on panel (the provenance of which has in the past been confused with that of the present picture); that sold, New York, American Art Association, 4 May 1916, lot 62, as 'Attributed to Rembrandt', on panel; and that in the collection of Göttinger University, 1926, no. 98, on canvas.

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