File:Saul bij de heks van Endor Rijksmuseum SK-A-668.jpeg
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Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen: Saul and the Witch of Endor
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| Title |
Saul and the Witch of Endor  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
religious art |
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| Description |
To the left, inside a magic circle, the witch, sitting on a throne of owls, practices her witchcraft. A sater is holding a book with magic spells. To the right four women an two goats are tasting their brewage. To their right a devil with a hurdy-gurdy is standing. Witches and devils are flying through the air. To the left King Saul is standing before the witch's house. In the background the ruins of an arch is depicted through which the Prophet Samuel and Saul's suicide can be seen. |
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| Date | 1526 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on oak wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 85.5 cm (33.6 in); width: 122.8 cm (48.3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
room 0.6 |
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| Accession number |
SK-A-668 |
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| Place of creation | Amsterdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
by 1796: Louis-Maximilien Beauvois (....-1796), Valenciennes (?) 19 May 1879: purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, at the sale of the collection of M. Beauvois at Pillion, Valenciennes, lot no. 1, for NLG 500 (as Jan Walther van Assen) |
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| Exhibition history |
De eeuw van de beeldenstorm. De Noordelijke Nederlanden in de zestiende eeuw. Zeven tentoonstellingen tussen september en december 1986, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 13 September 1986–23 November 1986, cat. no. 20, p. 133-134. |
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| Inscriptions |
Date and monogram bottom center: Aº 1526 noveb. 29 / I. A.
top left: leest Regum j[...] ghescreven / [...] Saul tot tovery heeft gehev.. / Samuel te verwrecke qua. hij te sne.ven
top left: Saul cu duob [v]iris ignoto habitum endorem adit:[...] consulturus pythonem / sup evetu[...] belli Q [...] ei erat adusus philisteos [...]Porro aia [...] Samuelis iussu / numinis ad colloqium [?] elicit r [?] q [?] et regis et triu [?] liberou iteritu [?] pnutiat [?] i regu [...] / 28 center left: pitonissa / Saulis
center right: Sepulchru[m] / Samuelis
center right: MAL
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| References |
Bode (1881) ‘Berichte und Mittheilungen aus Sammlungen und Museen, über staatliche Kunstpflege und Restaurationen, neue Funde. Die Pflege der alten Kunst in Holland’, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, Band 4, p. 293-301, especially p. 300-301. See www.digizeitschriften.de. Anonymous (1903) Catalogus der Schilderijen miniaturen, pastels, omlijste teekeningen, enz. in het Rijks-Museum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Boek- en kunstdrukkerij v/h Roeloffzen-Hübner en Van Santen, p. 76, cat. no. 722, as Saul bij de heks van Endor, height: 87.5 cm (34.4 in); width: 125 cm (49.2 in).Anonymous (1934) Catalogus der schilderijen pastels–miniaturen–aquarellen tentoongesteld in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, p. 74, cat. no. 722, as Saul bij de Heks van Endor, height: 87.5 cm (34.4 in); width: 125 cm (49.2 in). Pieter J. J. van Thiel et al. (1976) All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, ISBN 90-6179-010-7, p. 176, cat. no. A 668, as Saul and the witch of Endor, height: 87.5 cm (34.4 in); width: 125 cm (49.2 in). Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Saul and the Witch of Endor, height: 85.5 cm (33.6 in); width: 122.8 cm (48.3 in). RKDimages, Art-work number 22750, as Saul and the witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:3-25), height: 88.3 cm (34.7 in); width: 123 cm (48.4 in) Web Gallery of Art, as Saul and the Witch of Endor, height: 88.3 cm (34.7 in); width: 123 cm (48.4 in). |
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| Source/Photographer | www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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