Lot 4: Attributed to Jan Tengnagel (Amsterdam 1584-1631)

Elisha with the Widow and her Sons
oil on panel
13 1/2 x 18 in. (34.3 x 45.7 cm.)

The subject is taken from 2 Kings IV, 1-7. The widow, whose poverty has left her sons threatened with slavery, appeals to Elisha. The prophet tells her to collect empty vessels from her neighbours and to fill them from a jar of oil which she owned. Obeying the prophet the widow finds that the jar miraculously replenishes to which the prophet says 'Go, sell the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.'

Astrid and Christian Tümpel consider the artist to be an unknown pre-Rembrandtist on the basis of a photograph.

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