Rinaldo and Armida

The subject is taken from Tasso's Gerusalemma Liberata, XV:57ff. Only four other pictures by this artist, who is recorded to have worked in Amsterdam from 1674 onwards, are recorded in the RKD: Anon. Sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 24 November 1986, lot 16, with ill., as Jan Quast (sic); Anon. Sale, Lepke Berlin, 27 October 1925, lot 103; Anon. Sale, Christie's London, 1 November 1991, lot 109, with ill. and Anon. Sale, Christie's London, 9 November 1951, lot 161.