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After Hugo van der Goes
Lot 42

After Hugo van der Goes

The Story of David and Abigail

Fermé7 May 2013

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EUR 10,000

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After Hugo van der Goes
The Story of David and Abigail
oil on canvas
128.5 x 211 cm.

N.H.C.G. Gilissen; Van Marle, Maastricht, 17 June 1935, lot 16, with different measurements.
Anonymous sale; Van Marle, The Hague, 14 June 1976, lot 101, (Nlg. 58,000), with different measurements.

Note du spécialiste

This composition derives from a lost prototype by Hugo van der Goes, of which several copies are known. One can be found in the Royal Museums of Fine Art, Brussels (inv. no. 142 174 B). Several episodes of the story of David and Abigail (1 Sam. 25, 26-42) are illustrated in which Nabal refuses food to David and expels him. Here we see Nabal's wife, Abigail, meet David and offers him food and drink.