Lot 30: - Louis Finson , Bruges 1580 - 1617 Amsterdam David and Bathsheba oil on canvas, unframed

signed, inscribed and dated lower centre: LODOVCO FINSONI. F/ INAPOLI/ 1610 oil on canvas, unframed

measurements note 161 by 223 cm.; 63 3/8 by 87 3/4 in.

Padua, Palazzo della Ragione. 25 March - 31 May 1990; Rome, Palazzo del Esposizioni, June-August 1990; Milan, Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente, September - October 1990; Rubens, pp. 230, no. 122, reproduced.

B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, vol. I, Turin 1989, p. 106, reproduced vol. III, plate 935.

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 2 July 1986, lot 112, for £10,800;
With P. & D. Colnaghi Ltd., London, 1988, from whom acquired by the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
David and Bathsheba was painted by Finson in 1610 in Naples, where he was living in the apartment of another Fleming, Abraham Vinck. Only five other works are securely datable to his stay in Naples, from 1604 to 1612; the Resurrection in St.-Jean de Late, Aix-en-Provence of 1610; two Annunciations of 1612 (Naples, Capodimonte and Avignon, Musée Théodore-Aubanel); a portrait of Livio Greco of 1608 and another of Carlo Maiorana di Troiana of 1612. After 1612 he travelled extensively through southern France, with prolonged stays in Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Montpellier and Bordeaux, before moving north to Paris and finally to Amsterdam in 1616, where he lodged again with Abraham Vinck, and where he died the following year.