Lot 175: ARENT DE GELDER

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
DORDRECHT 1645 - 1727
CHRIST BLESSING THE CHILDREN
oil on canvas
45 1/2 by 38 3/4 in.; 115.7 by 98.3 cm.

Amsterdam, Galerie Goudstikker, Collectie Goudstikker, 1929, no. 11.

K. Lilienfeld, Arent de Gelder, sein Leben und seine Kunst, The Hague 1914, p. 7, no. 77, inventory p. VII;
K. Bauch, Rembrandts Claudius Civilis, Oud-Holland, vol. XLII, 1925, plate 5;
C. Hofstede de Groot, Een grappige vergissing, Oud-Holland, vol. XLVI, 1929, p. 31;
G. Sluiter, '"Een loffellijke daad": De vergeten tentoonstellingen van Aert de Gelder in 1929-1930', in Kunstlicht, vol. XIII, 1992, p. 13, no. 2 (Erroneously swapped with The Temple Entrance);
W. Sumowski, Rembrandt-Schüler, 1983 Landau, vol. VI, no. 2505, (as School of Rembrandt);
J.W. von Moltke, et al., Arent de Gelder, Doornspijk 1994, p. 88, no. 57, plate 57.

Sale, Graaf van Hogendorp, The Hague, 27 July 1751;
With Galerie Van Diemen & Co., Berlin, 1922;
With Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Amsterdam (invoice no. 2307);
Looted by Nazi authorities, July 1940;
Anonymous Sale, Berlin, Lange, 3-4 December 1940, lot 71;
J. V. Winterfeld, Schloss Holte, 1978, on loan to Staatliche Museum Kassel;
Restituted from a private German collection in February 2005 to the heir of J. Goudstikker;
By whom sold, New York, Christie's, 17 October 2006, lot 22.