Lot 19: THE PROPERTY OF A LADY LAMBERT JACOBSZ. AMSTERDAM CIRCA 1598 - 1636 LEEUWARDEN JOSEPH'S BROTHERS

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY LAMBERT JACOBSZ. AMSTERDAM CIRCA 1598 - 1636 LEEUWARDEN JOSEPH'S BROTHERS ON THE ROAD FROM EGYPT HELD BY THE CENTURION AND HIS SOLDIERS (GENESIS, 44: 5-6)

signed and dated lower centre: Lamber.. Jacobs. f.. / A^o1632

oil on panel, in a 17th Century ebonized cabinet frame with a moulded inner edge

PROVENANCE

Mrs. A.W. Visser-Kiewit de Jonge, Groningen, 1926;
Thence by descent to the present owner;
Offered, Amsterdam, Christie's, 6 November 2000, lot 78.
EXHIBITED

Leeuwarden, Fries Museum, Herdenkingstentoonstelling Lambert Jacobsz., 27 June - 27 September 1936, p. 15, cat. no. 6.
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

U. Thieme & F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler..., vol. XVIII, Leipzig 1913, p. 259;
K. Bauch, Jacob Adriaensz. Backer, Berlin 1926, p. 69, cat. no. 2;
H.F. Wijnman, 'Nieuwe gegevens omtrent den schilder Lambert Jacobsz. I', in Oud Holland, 47, 1930, pp. 152-3, reproduced p. 151, fig. 4.
CATALOGUE NOTE

In 1620, after visiting Italy, and training with Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Amsterdam-born painter Lambert Jacobsz. went to Leeuwarden.

Best known for his paintings with a historical subject, Jacobsz. painted several landscapes with biblical staffage, such as this characteristic work. These pictures closely relate to works by the pre-Rembrandtists, such as Pieter Lastman (1583-1633), Nicolaes Moeyaert (c.1592-c.1655) and Jacob Pynas (c.1592-c.1650).

54.7 by 71 cm.