JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET (HAARLEM C.1610-1675)
JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET (HAARLEM C.1610-1675)
JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET (HAARLEM C.1610-1675)
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JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET (HAARLEM C.1610-1675)

The Circumcision

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JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET (HAARLEM C.1610-1675)
The Circumcision
oil on panel
16 ½ x 22 in. (41.8 x 55.8 cm.)
Provenance
M. van der Stadt, London.
Baron Albertus Constant Allard Warmold van der Feltz (1940-2018), Brummen.
[The Property of a Nobleman]; Christie's, London, 21 June 1968, lot 34, where acquired for 904.7 gns. by the following,
with Old Masters Gallery, London.
Nathalie and Hugo Weisgall, New York, by 1975, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J.G. van Gelder, Rembrandt's vroegste ontwikkeling, Amsterdam, 1953, p. 299.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, IV, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, p. 2779, no. 1827, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Old Masters Gallery, Winter Exhibition of Fine Paintings of European Schools, 1968, no. 22.
Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, Rembrandt and his Pupils, 9 January-27 April 1969.
Sacramento, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, The Collecting Muse: A Selection from the Nathalie and Hugo Weisgall Collection, 30 August-12 October 1975, no. 47.

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Lot Essay

A contemporary of Leonaert Bramer and teacher of Paulus Potter, Jacob Willemsz. de Wet painted historical, religious and mythological scenes with muted tones and bathed in dramatic light that were heavily influenced by Rembrandt.

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