Moses Striking the Rock

Details

Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-c. 1676 East Indies)
Moses Striking the Rock
oil on canvas
41¼ x 53 in. (104.8 x 134.6 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, 29 January 1971, lot 144 (sold 300 gns.).

Literature

E. Zafran, 'Jan Victors and the Bible', The Israel Museum News, 12, 1977, p. 120, note 71.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, IV, p. 2609, under no. 1778.
D. Miller, Jan Victors, 1619-1676, diss., University of Delaware, 1985, p. 310, no. 62.
V. Manuth, Ikonographische Studien zu den Historien des Alten Testaments bei Rembrandt unde seiner frühen Amsterdamer Schule. Mit einem kritischen Katalog der biblischen Gemälde des Amsterdamer Malers Jan Victors, diss., Berlin, 1987, no. 40, fig. 148.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

In his monograph on the school of Rembrandt, Werner Sumowski (loc. cit.), listed this painting under his entry for Victors' The Gathering of the Quail and Manna in the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California. He dates both to the artist's later period, circa 1655-76, and notes that the figure of the cow near Aaron is repeated from the Landscape with travellers and cattle at a ferry of 1650 in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

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