The National Museum of Western Art

update 12 January 2012

on display 17th Century Paintings

Govaert Flinck [1615 - 1660]

The Lamentation

Date1637
Materials/Techniquesoil on canvas
Size (cm)90.1 x 71.9
InscriptionsSigned and dated lower center: G. Flinck.f 1637
CategoryPaintings
Collection NumberP.2006-0001

Provenance

Jan Pietersz. Bruyningh, Amsterdam, 1647; Piter Roelsema, R. Muller, Groningen, 22 June 1863, lot 80; Canon A. Simonis, Strasbourg; Le Goupy, Paris; Sotherby's New York, 11 January 1990, lot 44; Collection Hardenberg, Germany; Christie's Amsterdam, 16 November 2005; Jack Kilgore & Co., New York

Bibliography

1936
Isarlo, George. Rembrandt et son entourage. La Renaissance Revue d'Art. 1936, p. 34.
1965
Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang von. Govaert Flinck. Amsterdam, 1965, pp. 16, 78, cat. no. 59.
1983
Sumowski, Werner. Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler. vol. 2, Landau, 1983, p. 1019, cat. no. 612.
1997
Rembrandt: A Genius and his Impact (exh. cat.). Blankert, Albert, ed. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1997, p. 205.
2006
Uylenburgh & Son: Art and Commerce from Rembrandt to De Lairesse, 1625-1675 (exh. cat.). Lammertse, Friso; Veen, Jaap van der, eds. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 7 June - 3 September 2006; Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 16 September - 10 December 2006. Zwolle/Amsterdam, 2006, pp. 162-165, fig. 111.
2008
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 41 (Apr. 2006-Mar. 2007), 2008, Kofuku, Akira. New Acquisitions. pp. 9-11, List of New Acquisitions. p. 46, repr.

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