Live Auction 20684Old Masters Part II
ATTRIBUTED TO JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)
Lot 129

ATTRIBUTED TO JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Closed7 July 2023

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GBP 20,000–30,000

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ATTRIBUTED TO JAN LIEVENS (LEIDEN 1607-1674 AMSTERDAM)
Saint Francis in Ecstasy
oil on canvas
38 x 31 3/8 in. (96.5 x 79.7 cm.)

Ida Israelsson (1874-1962) and August Herbert Israelsson (1876-1968), Örebro, from 1925, and by descent to their son,
Martin Israelsson Hagenfeldt (1899-1974), Örebro.
Private collection, Belgium.
Anonymous sale; Auction Affair S.R.L., Martina Franca, 27 February 2018, lot 189.

Specialist note

This picture relates to a painting of the same subject in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, which is landscape in format. The precise nature of the relationship between the two is still not entirely clear. In 1986, Werner Sumowski (loc. cit.) published the present work as an autograph fragment, from which the Lille painting was copied by another hand. Bernhard Schnackenburg (loc. cit.) attributes both paintings to Lievens, publishing the present work in 2017 as an autograph reduced replica of the Lille painting, with the composition contracted to make it upright in format.