Auction on
26 January 2021 - 14:00 (CET) -
8-10, rue Miséricorde - 44000 Nantes
Found in a château in Poitou, this painting features eye-catching Rembrandtesque qualities.
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674), Pharaoh Returns Sarah to Abraham, oil on canvas, signed and dated on the second step “G.V. Eeckhout. fecit./A. 1669”, 139 x 174 cm (54.72 x 68.5 in). Estimate: €60,000/80,000
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674), Pharaoh Returns Sarah to Abraham, oil on canvas, signed and dated on the second step “G.V. Eeckhout. fecit./A. 1669”, 139 x 174 cm (54.72 x 68.5 in). Estimate: €60,000/80,000
The composition is masterly, the figures are impressively realistic and the lighting effects skillfully heighten the dramatic tension. Gerbrand van den Eeckhout depicted the saddest episode in the story of Abraham as told in Chapter 12 of Genesis, when an angry Pharaoh sends Abraham and his wife into exile. Famine had driven the couple out of the land of Canaan to find refuge in Egypt. Abraham knows that his beautiful wife Sarah…
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