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NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)
Lot 32

NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)

Elijah and the angel in the desert

Closed26 January 2023

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USD 10,000–15,000

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NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)
Elijah and the angel in the desert
pen and brown ink, brown wash
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
with inscription ‘Rembrandt’ (verso)

Duschnitz collection, Vienna (as Samuel van Hoogstaten?).
Anonymous sale; Phillips, Son & Neale, New York, 8 June 1983, no. 248 (as Ferdinand Bol).
Oliver T. Banks (1941-1991), New York.
Charter collection.
with Jack Kilgore and Co., New York.
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Cressman, Louisville.

Specialist note

A rarely depicted subject, even in Rembrandt's iconographically adventurous circle, the encounters in the desert of the prophet Elijah with an angel warning him for the long journey ahead of him, is taken from the Book of Kings 19:5 and 19:7.