Theagenes and Chariclea

Theagenes and Chariclea

SK-A-4668

Theagenes en Chariclea. Op een rotsachtige kust liggen enkele mannen gedood of gewond door pijlen, rechts zit een vrouw met een boog. Voor de kust ligt een schip voor anker, bovenop de heuvel komt een groep soldaten aangelopen. Scène uit de Aethiopica van Heliodorus.

signature: ‘DT’

painter: Daniël Thivart

1625 - 1640

olieverf op paneel

• height 45.2 cm x width 53 cm
• depth 8 cm

Public domain

…; ? estate inventory, Daniel Wulfraet, Amsterdam, 13 February 1673, (`een Theagenes en Chariklea van Daniel Tievaert´), fl. 18;{Note RMA.} …; sale, the late Matthew White Ridley Esq. et al., London (Robinson, Fisher and Harding), 11 November 1937, no. 99, as B. Cuyp;{Copy RMA; a note on the mount in the RKD states that this is the picture in the Rijksmuseum. Daan Cevat wrote a letter on 16 October 1977, RMA, stating that he bought the painting in London.} …; the dealer Nico Cevat, Amsterdam, 1938, 1939;{Note RMA; Hofstede de Groot in Thieme/Becker XXXIII, 1939, p. 38.} ? from whom, to Maassen;{Letter Daan Cevat, 16 October 1977, RMA.} …; from G. van Marselius Hartsinck-Veldhuizen van Zanten, Haarlem, fl. 7,000, to the museum, 1975

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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