Object number1980.17

The Sacrifice of Noah

Date1628

Artist Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert (Dutch, 1591-1655)

CultureDutch

MediumOil on oak panel

DimensionsUnframed: 31 1/2 x 50 7/16 in. (80.01 x 128.11 cm)
Framed: 39 x 58 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. (99.06 x 148.59 x 5.4 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Friends of the Vassar College Art Gallery Fund

On View

Not on view

Period17th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedSigned and dated (middle of left side): CL Mooy[?]ert f[ec?] / 1628 (mongram)

MarkingsNo further evidence. (Examined 6/12/06, wax relining).

BibliographyAstrid Tumpel, “Claes Cornelisz, Moyaert,” Oud Holland, 1974, vol. 88, nr. 1/2, p. 86, plate 119; Vassar Quartery, vol. LXXVII, no. 2, Winter 1981, p. 5.ProvenanceFrankfurt Private Collection, probably H. Schneider, Aachen, 1903; Sale, Sotheby & Co., March 26, 1969, lot 106; A Wetzlar, Amsterdam, 1969; H. Schickman Gallery, New York; Sotheby Parke Bernet, “Important Old Master Paintings,” sale number 4388, June 4, 1980, lot 106, purchase by VC Art Gallery.

Vassar Exhibitions

A Museum Menagerie: Highlights from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Selections from the Permanent Collection (1990)

Exhibition HistorySacramento, California, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, The Art Museum of the City of Sacramento, “The Pre-Rembrandtists,” December 7, 1974 - January 26, 1975, no. 15;
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwauke Art Center, “The Bible Through Dutch Eyes: From Genesis Through the Apocrypha,” April 9 - May 23, 1976, no. 3, p. 16 and illus. p. 117;
New York, New York, IBM Gallery of Sciences and Art, “Highlights from the Vassar College Collection,” July 13 - September 11, 1993.

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "A Museum Menagerie: Highlights from the Permanent Collection," April 25 - August 13, 2017

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