3225
Follower of Rembrandt
South Germany 17th/18th C.
Jesus healing the centurion's servant.
Oil on canvas, relined. Unsigned. Verso on a label typographically inscribed with the work's data and the price.
H 43, W 33,5 cm (support). Elaborate frame.
The painting, mounted in a florid Rococo style frame, reproduces the episode of the centurion of Capernaum, a town on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. The centre of the painting depicts the bearded, aged man kneeling in a long cloak, imploring the Son of God to heal his sick servant. The dramatic chiaroscuro, the amazingly lifelike rendering of the materials and the orientalising headdress of the centurion are characteristic style features of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669), the paradigm of many Baroque painters of Central Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Provenance: Gertrud von Lukasiewiecz, Bad Säckingen; by succession transferred to private property Hexental.

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