Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683)
Callisto and Jupiter
Oil on canvas
50⅞ x 64⅝ inches (129.2 x 164.1 cm.)
Signed 'Berchem'
Sold
Provenance
Sale L. Thielens, Brussels, 24 May 1842, lot 14Sale Tence, Paris 12 December 1881, lot 6
Gallery W.E. Duits, Amsterdam, 1933
Sale Christie's, London, 24 May 1935, lot 68A
Gallery K. & V. Waterman, Amsterdam, 1986
Private collection, The Netherlands
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, Hollandischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, IX, 1907-28 no. 37L.J. Slatkes, "Nicolaes Berchem's Callisto and Jupiter after the hunt, Tableau Vol. 9 (November 1986) no. 2, p. 51, ill.
E.J. Sluijter, De 'Heydensche fabulen' in de Noordnederlandse schilderkunst, circa 1590-1670, Leiden 1986 (published dissertation), p. 463 no. 130-5, ill. no. 194
A. Blankert, in exh.cat. Dutch classicism in seventeenth-century painting, Rotterdam/Frankfurt 1999, cat. no. 45 ill., p.244-247
P. Schoon & S. Paarlberg a.o., Greek Gods nd Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt, Athens/Dordrecht 2000, ill. 39, p.56-57
E.J. Sluijter, De 'heydensche fabulen' in de schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw. Schilderijen met verhalende onderwerpen uit de klassieke mythologie in de Noordelijke Nederlanden, circa 1590-1670, Leiden 2000, p. 80, p. 257 note 118, ill. no. 263, p. 500