Pieter Lastman

Illustration number 1001689961
Dimensions: 650x425 pixels
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Illustration number 0000000244
Dimensions: 650x455 pixels

Illustration number 0000000243
Dimensions: 650x470 pixels

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (landscape format) 83.2 x 126.1 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed and dated center: Pietro Lastman fecit 1614

Current attribution: Pieter Lastman

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1614 (1614)
Created in: Amsterdam (city)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Orestes en Pylades discussiërend voor het offeraltaar
English title: Orestes and Pylades disputing at the altar
Genre: history (genre)
Keywords: Greek mythology, literature (genre), sacrifice, smoke (material), festoon (motif), temple
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 95A(ORESTES)342
Orestes and Pylades argue about who is going to be sacrificed
: The episode comes from "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Euripides.

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Reinier de Wolff, Rotterdam
- 1676 sold Amsterdam 1676-05-15, no. 15 for HFL 900 (Hoet 1752)
private collection Jan Six (1618-1700), Amsterdam
- 1700 year of decease of the owner; auctioned Amsterdam 1702-04-06
private collection Gerard Godard baron Taets van Amerongen, Oud-Amelisweerd (Bunnik)
- 1804 year of decease of the owner; auctioned Amsterdam 1805-07-03
private collection Consul Meyer-Puhiera
source: website Rijksmuseum (accessed 2021-09-13)
private collection Generaal von Bredow
source: website Rijksmuseum (accessed 2021-09-13)
art dealer/collection Fritz Gerstel, Berlin
- 1908-03
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-A-2354
with the support of the Vereeniging Rembrandt
1908-03 -

Auction(s)

Zomer, Jan Pietersz (Amsterdam (city)) 1702-04-06, afb. zonder afbeelding, lotnr. 32
Contributor Jan Six (deceased)
200 HFL

annotated copy of the sale catalogue at the RKD , as "Orestes en Pylades, een Weêrga, van de zelve [= Lastman]"
Schley, Philippus van der (Amsterdam (city)) 1805-07-03, afb. zonder afbeelding, lotnr. 104
Contributor baron Taets van Amerongen (deceased)
Name buyer : Francesco Tozelli , 13 HFL

annotated copy of the sale catalogue at the RKD , as "Een ryke Ordinantie van een ménigte Beelden, voorstellende een dito [Heydensche] Offerhanden, meede in een Bergachtig Landschap, met een Tempel, en in alles als de voorgaande behandeld, door denzelven [= Pieter Lastman], op Paneel, hoog 33, breed 49 duim [84.8 x 125.9 cm]."
Keller & Reiner (Berlin (city)) 1908-01-21 - 1908-01-22, lotnr. 44
Contributor Galerie Fritz Gerstel
Name buyer : bought in

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Pieter Lastman, leermeester van Rembrandt Museum Het Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam (city) , 1991 , no. 7

Literature

Hoet 1752 , vol. 2, p. 344, no. 15
Freise 1911 , no. 98
Van Thiel et al. 1976 , p. 338, ill.
Scott 1989 , p. 21-22, ill. 3
Schatborn/Tümpel/Tümpel 1991 , p. 41, with ill. no. 30 in black/white; cat. no. 7, with ill. in color , with provenance and literature
Seifert 2011 , p. 69-70, with ill. no. 54 in color; p. 281-284, no. A 4, with ill. in color , with provenance and literature
Bikker/Bruijnen/Wuestman 2007 , p. 242-243, no.167, ill. (color)

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001689961)
, Original location BD/RKD/0540 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 1 (img.nr. 0000000244)
, Original location BD/RKD/0540 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 1 (img.nr. 0000000243)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project
RemBench

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External links: this work on the website of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (accessed November 2021)

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Creation date: 1996-04-04; Last modified date: 2023-04-03

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