Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Attributed to Thomas de Keyser
Christ at the Column of the Flagellation
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February 1, 09:24 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Attributed to Thomas de Keyser
Amsterdam 1596–1667
Christ at the Column of the Flagellation
signed or inscribed and dated on base of column: TDK 1640
oil on panel, octagonal
panel: 18 by 14 in.; 45.7 by 38.6 cm.
framed: 30 ⅞ by 27 ¼ in.; 78.4 by 69.2 cm.
Private collection, Lucerne;
Anonymous sale, Lucerne, Galerie Gloggner, 23 October 2021, lot 9 (as Thomas de Keyser);
Where acquired.
This octagonal panel depicts the biblical scene of the Scourging of Christ (Matthew 27:26). Signed with De Keyser’s monogram and dated 1640 on the base of the column, the present work relates to an oval painting of the same subject by the artist, dated 1637, in the Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.1 Worthy of note, De Keyser changed professions on May 14, 1640, when he moved on from the painting trade to join the Amsterdam stonemason’s guild.
1 See A.J. Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser (1596/7-1667): A Study of Portraiture in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University 1985, p. 127, cat. no. 71. For a black and white image, see https://research.rkd.nl/nl/detail/https%3A%2F%2Fdata.rkd.nl%2Fimages%2F1592.