Lot 147: Aert de Gelder* (1645-1727)

Description

Gelder, A. The Archangel Raphael oil on canvas 20 x 17in. (53 x 43cm.) PROVENANCE H.F. de Court Onderwater, Dubbeldam, sale, Mak, Dordrecht, Nov. 18-20, 1958, lot 22, as Rembrandt. Major F.H.T. Jervoise; Sotheby's, London, May 26, 1965, lot 134, as Rembrandt. Private collection, London. LITERATURE D.R. van Fossen, The Paintings of Aert de Gelder, unpublished PhD dissertation, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, 1969, no. 65. J.W. von Moltke, Arent de Gelder; Dordrecht 1645-1727, 1994, p. 94, no. 73, pl. 73. NOTES The present work was long thought to be by Rembrandt, as indicated by the old collection labels on the reverse, but as van Fossen and von Moltke have indicated, it is a typical example of de Gelder's work, probably painted around 1680-5.