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Summary

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem: Ruth and Boas  wikidata:Q17319685 reasonator:Q17319685
Artist
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem  (1621/1622–1683)  wikidata:Q711737 s:nl:Hoofdportaal:Beeldende kunst/Schilderkunst/Nederland/Barok en Rococo/Nicolaes Berchem
 
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
Alternative names
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, Claes Pietersz. Berchem, Cornelis van Berchom, Nicolaes Berghen, Niclas Berghem, Claes Berighem, Nicolaes Berrighem, Claasz. van Haarlem, Claes Pietersen
Description Dutch painter, drawer and etcher
Date of birth/death 1621 or 1622
date QS:P,+1621-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1621-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1622-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
18 February 1683 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Haarlem Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1642 until 1683
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1642-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1683-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Haarlem (1634?), Amsterdam (1639–1641), Italy (1642–1645), Haarlem (1642–1649), Bad Bentheim (1650), Italy (1651–1653), Haarlem (1656–1658), Amsterdam (1661–1670), Haarlem (1670–1674), Amsterdam (1677-18 February 1683)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q711737
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Ruth and Boas Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lfr,"Ruth et Boaz"
label QS:Lnl,"Ruth en Boaz"
label QS:Len,"Ruth and Boaz"
label QS:Lru,"Руфь и Вооз"
label QS:Lde,"Ruth und Boas"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Landscape with Ruth, kneeling on the ground, being spoken to by Boaz. In the background grain is being harvested.
Depicted people Ruth Edit this at Wikidata
Date Between 1640 and 1650
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 109.5 cm (43.1 in); width: 136 cm (53.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,109.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,136U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Accession number
SK-A-32
Place of creation Haarlem (?)
Object history by 12 April 1741
date QS:P,+1741-04-12T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1741-04-12T00:00:00Z/11
: Gerard Bicker van Swieten (II) (1687-1753), Amsterdam (?)

12 April 1741: purchased by Hendrik van Heteren (....-1749), The Hague, at the sale of the collection of Van Zwieten at an unknown auction house, The Hague, lot no. 165, for ƒ 245 or 215 (as ‘Een zeer ſchoon Landſchap waar in de Hiſtorie van Ruth, met verſcheyde figuren en beeſten, door den ſelve [= N. Berchem], h. 3 voet 5¾ duym, breed 4 voet 3 duim’)

1749: inherited by Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1722-1800), The Hague, from Hendrik van Heteren, The Hague

1800: inherited by Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam, from Adriaan Leonard van Heteren, The Hague

8 June 1809: purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, from Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers, Rotterdam
Exhibition history Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem. In het licht van Italië, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 16 December 2006–15 April 2007, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 27 April 2007–19 August 2007, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, 1 September 2007–2 December 2007, ISBN 9789055446377, p. 12, 134, cat. no.  1.
Inscriptions

Signature bottom left:

NClBerighem
References

AnonymousUnknown author, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Ruth and Boas, 1640-1650.

AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 2201, as Ruth and Boaz speaking (Ruth 2:5-13), 1640-1683

Anonymous (1809) Catalogus der schilderijen, oudheden, enz. op het Koninklijk Museum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Gebroeders van Cleeff, p. 7, cat. no.  23, as ‘In een Landſchap ziet men Ruth, zich nederbuigende voor Boas, met eene menigte Landlieden en Beesten’.

AnonymousUnknown author (1830) Aanwijzing der schilderijen, berustende op ’s Rijks Museum, te Amsterdam, [s.l.: s.n.], p. 9, cat. no.  24, as ‘In een landschap ziet men Ruth, zich nederbuigende voor Boas, met eene menigte landlieden en beesten’.

AnonymousUnknown author (1839) Aanwijzing der schilderijen, berustende op ’s Rijks Museum te Amsterdam, [s.l.: s.n.], p. 8, cat. no.  24, as ‘In een Landschap ziet men Ruth, zich nederbuigende voor Boas, voorts eene menigte koornmaaijers, landlieden en beesten’.

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. 110, with image in black and white.
Source/Photographer www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info : Pic

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