ROMBOUT VAN TROYEN | King Ahaz sacrifices his son to Moloch

Private collection, New York;

Anonymous sale ('Property from a private collection, New York'), New York, Christie's, 26 March 1987, lot 155 (where unsold);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 2 June 1988, lot 123;

With P. & N. de Boer, Amsterdam;

F.C. Butôt, Sankt Gilgen, Austria;

His deceased sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 16 November 1993, lot 13, when acquired.

Gordon 1989, cat. no. 114;

Rotterdam 2008, p. 70, no. 51, reproduced;

Raupp 2010, pp. 400–06, cat. no. 68, reproduced p. 401.

Munich 1989;

Rotterdam 2008, no. 51.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

A similar (but much smaller) work by van Troyen, a Sacrifice in an ancient catacomb, is in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.(1) For a discussion of this artist's œuvre see J.Q. van Regteren Altena's article in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. LXXXIV, October 1974, pp. 215–22.

1 See R. Klessmann, Die Holländischen Gemälde, Brunswick 1983, p. 200, cat. no. 744.