Lot 185: JAN VAN NOORDT (AMSTERDAM CIRCA 1623-CIRCA 1676) Granida and Daifilo

JAN VAN NOORDT (AMSTERDAM CIRCA 1623-CIRCA 1676) Granida and Daifilo signed and dated ‘Joan/v Noordt. f./1663’ (lower left) oil on canvas laid on panel 137.1 x 116.2cm (54 x 45 3/4in).

Provenance Tatarsky Collection His sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 27 June 1905, lot 22 Sale, Phillips, London, 7 July 1998, lot 78 Sale, Sotheby’s, 18 April 2002, lot 34 (the Property of a Nobleman) Literature C. Hofstede de Groot, ‘Jan van Noordt’, oud Holland, 1892, p. 215, no.10 S.J. Gudlauggson, ‘Representations of Granida in Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting’, in Burlington Magazine, XCI, 1949, p. 39 W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schüler, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, vol.I, pp. 143, 177, ill Rembrandt’s Academy The Hague, 1992, exh.cat., pp. 268-9, ill.