Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam 1596-1667)

The Resurrection

Details

Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam 1596-1667)
The Resurrection
signed in monogram and dated 'TDK 1635.' (lower right)
oil on panel
37 x 27 in. (94 x 68.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Asscher & Koetser, London.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, from 1926.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, 14 June 1941, lot 47 (RM 2,000).
Private collection, Germany.
with Rafael Valls Ltd., London.
Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker in June 2006.

Literature

H. Schneider, ‘Keyser (Keyzer), Thomas de’, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, U. Thieme and F. Becker (ed.), XX, 1927, p. 240.
Kunstpreisverzeichnis 1940-41, II: ‘Auktionsergebnisse vom 1 Juli 1940 bis 30. Juni 1941’, Berlin-Paris, 1943, p. 315, no. 6298.
A. J. Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser (1596/7-1667): A Study of Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, Cambridge, Mass., 1985, I, p. 397-400, III, p. 199, no. 63.

Exhibited

The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, March-April 1926, no. 84.
Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstring, Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, 10-15 April 1926, no. 52.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Bijbelsche Kunst, 8 July-8 October 1939, no. 117a.

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Lot Essay

In a 1939 certificate by Hofstede de Groot, quoted in the Lempertz sale catalogue, this picture is described as ‘...een echt harakteristick, echt gemonogrammeerd en 1635 gejaarmerkt stuk van Thomas de Keyser’ (loc. cit.).

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