Christoffel van den Berghe
1588/9 - 1628
Christ with St John the Evangelist and Nicodemus seated at a Table in a candlelit Interior
Medium:
Oil on Copper
Category:
Dimensions:
22.6(h) x 16.5(w) cms
Signed:
Signed and dated lower left: "CV/BERGHE/1617"
Essay:
This rare religious subject by the painter is dated 1617 and so along with a flower still life in the Philadelphia Museum of Art they represent the earliest dated works by the painter.
Provenance:
Mrs Speelman, London;
with Sam Nijstad, The Hague, October 1957;
Purchased in September 1958 by Dr. George S. Heyer, Jr. (1930-2015), USA