TOUSSAINT GELTON | Diana resting with a landscape beyond

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1994, lot 208, where acquired.

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 110, cat. no. 110, reproduced in colour;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 168-72, cat. no. 25, reproduced in colour.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 110. 

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Toussaint Gelton's paintings are strongly influenced by Cornelis Poelenburch, to whom many of his paintings have been misattributed. Gelton worked for most of his career in Scandinavia, principally in Copenhagen, where he worked for successive Danish kings.