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NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)
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NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)

Elijah and the angel in the desert

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NICOLAES MAES (DORDRECHT 1634-1693 AMSTERDAM)
Elijah and the angel in the desert
pen and brown ink, brown wash
6 ¼ x 8 1⁄8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
with inscription ‘Rembrandt’ (verso)

Duschnitz Collection, Vienna (as Samuel van Hoogstraten?).
Anonymous sale; Phillips, Son & Neale, New York, 8 June 1983, lot 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, Kentucky.

Note du spécialiste

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