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Lot 2523 Dα

Toussaint Gelton - The Finding of the Infant Moses

Auction 1197 - overview Cologne
21.05.2022, 16:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century Part II
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 5.000 € (incl. premium)

Toussaint Gelton

The Finding of the Infant Moses

Oil on copper. 32.5 x 26 cm.
Signed lower left: Gelton (faint and difficult to decipher).

Toussaint Gelton was probably taught in the Hague but moved to Copenhagen when he was 27 years old, where he worked in the royal palace studio and was appointed royal portrait painter two years later. He was greatly influenced by the works of Cornelis van Poelenburgh, and the present work provides a fine example of this tendency.

Provenance

Private collection, Netherlands. - Lempertz auction 588, Cologne, 24.-26.5.1982, lot 53. - Kunsthandlung Müllenmeister, Solingen. - Private collection, Rhineland.