Lot 215: GERRIT CLAESZ. BLEKER

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
HAARLEM CIRCA 1593 - 1656
THE MEETING OF JACOB AND ESAU
signed and dated lower left: Bleker f 1635

oil on oak panel
51.1 by 78.7 cm.; 20 1/4 by 31 in.

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 April 1948, lot 100, where acquired by:
Ephraim I. Schapiro, London;
By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 29 June 1979, lot 3;
Possibly with Rafael Valls, London;
With Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, inv. no. 16389-C (both the above according to labels on the reverse).