Lot 173: WILLEM BARTSIUS

WILLEM BARTSIUS ENKHUIZEN CIRCA 1612 - AFTER 1657 ABRAHAM PLEADING WITH SARAH ON BEHALF OF HAGAR signed and dated lower right: .W.BARTSIVS.fe t ./ .i63i. 120.8 by 89.2 cm.; 47 1/2 by 35 1/8 in.

Northridge, California State University, Baroque Masters from the J, Paul Getty Museum, 26 February-20 March 1973, no. 1.

Baroque Masters from the J, Paul Getty Museum, exhibition catalogue, Northridge 1973, p. 1, cat. no. 1 (as The Expulsion of Hagar?);
B.B. Fredericksen, `Recent Gifts of Paintings', in the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 3, 1976, pp. 119, 121, reproduced p. 118 (as possibly Blind Tobit and Anna);
P.C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Washington 1986, p. 138;
D. Jaffé, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1997, p. 6, reproduced.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1927, lot 128 (as The Sacrifice of Abraham with Sarah, on the promise of Isaac), for 26 Guineas;
With Central Picture Galleries, New York;
There bought by Dr. William P. Garred, Onawa Iowa, in 1971;
By whom donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1972 (inv. no. 71.PA.70):
By whom deaccessioned and sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 8 May 2007, lot 56, where bought on behalf of the present owner.

This is one of Bartsius' earliest works, painted in 1631, when he was only nineteen or twenty years old, and was not yet a member of the Guild in Alkmaar, which he joined in 1634.