Lot 32: Rombout van Troyen (Amsterdam 1605-1656)

Rombout van Troyen (Amsterdam 1605-1656)
Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols
signed and dated '1647/R.Troyen fe./29 Aug[ust]i' (lower right)
oil on panel
18 3/8 x 27½ in. (46.7 x 69.9 cm.)

Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, summer 1977, on loan.
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, 17th Century Dutch Painting, 1979, no. 32.

Anonymous sale; Savoy Art & Auction Galleries, New York, 9 December 1960, lot 156.

Rombout van Troyen is best known for cavernous scenes such as the present one, which appears to be one of his most ambitious in size and number of figures. Also unusually for the artist, it is fully signed and dated. Other versions of Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols were sold at Christie's New York in 1987 and 1990.