Live Auction 17994Old Master & British Drawings Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Attributed to Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)
Lot 45 Property from the Michael Hall Collections

Attributed to Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)

Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph

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Attributed to Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)
Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph
with inscription 'niet' (?) (lower left, recto), and with inscription in a 17th Century hand ‘a. 4st sweecks cour. 16 st/ noch voor 4 portugesen als per [?] het/ clat boeck elck I en ½ weeck/ 40+20=60/ noch voor 2 portugesen 13 weecken/ 15 15/ 15 15/ Den 26 ordon/ gepasseert/ de vrou ende een portugees is/ tot eumes [?] gebleven door de sieckte vand’ (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, fragmentary watermark
4 ½ x 4 ½ in. (11.5 x 11.5 cm)

Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836), Saint Petersburg (L. 2332).
Paul Victor Mathey (1844-1929), Paris.
Marsden Jasael Perry (b. 1850), Providence (L. 1880, verso).
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner (1880-1958), New York; A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, 25 October 1932, lot 19 (as attributed to Rembrandt).
W.E. Mills, New York.

Specialist note

First proposed by Sumowski and more recently by Schatborn, the attribution to Jan Victors is based on a comparison with a drawing of the same subject connected to a painting by the artist (Sumowski, op. cit., no. 2337, ill.), as well as on a comparison with a sheet showing The Dismissal of Hagar that displays a kneeling child very close to that in the present drawing (ibid., no. 2344, ill.). Sumowski proposed a date in the 1650s for this sheet, based on a painting by Rembrandt of the same subject from 1656 in Kassel. An attribution to Samuel van Hoogstraten, suggested by Valentiner (who once owned the drawing), was rejected by Sumowski. We are grateful to Peter Schatborn for his assistance in preparing this catalogue note.