Lot 37: PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET HAARLEM CIRCA 1610 - 1675 CHRIST

PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET HAARLEM CIRCA 1610 - 1675 CHRIST AMONG THE DOCTORS

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

With Ch. Potter, Paris;
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in Paris, circa 1925.
CATALOGUE NOTE

We are grateful to Prof. Werner Sumowski who, based on photographs, has confirmed the present painting to be a work by de Wet. He compares it to another painting by de Wet depicting The Presentation in the Temple in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (see W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. VI, cat. no. 2492, reproduced).

22 3/4 by 18 3/4 in.; 57.8 by 47.6 cm.