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Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen: Saul and the Witch of Endor  wikidata:Q17321996 reasonator:Q17321996
Artist
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen  (circa 1472/1477–1533)  wikidata:Q1029143
 
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Alternative names
Jacob Cornelisz. van Amsterdam, Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostzanen
Jakob Cornelisz. van Oostzanen, Jacob van Amsterdam
Jacob van Oostsanen, Jacob van Oostzanen
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death circa 1472–1477 before 18 October 1533
date QS:P,+1533-10-18T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1533-10-18T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Oostzaan Amsterdam
Work period 1487 Edit this at Wikidata–1533 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q1029143
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Saul and the Witch of Endor Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lit,"Saul e la strega di Endor"
label QS:Lde,"Saul bei der Hexe von Endor"
label QS:Len,"Saul and the Witch of Endor"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
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.
Date 1526
date QS:P571,+1526-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 85.5 cm (33.6 in); width: 122.8 cm (48.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,85.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,122.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Current location
room 0.6
Accession number
SK-A-668
Place of creation Amsterdam
Object history by 1796
date QS:P,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: 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)

from 2003 until 2013
date QS:P,+2050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+2003-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+2013-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: lent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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.
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
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)
dimensions QS:P2048,87.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,125U174728
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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)
dimensions QS:P2048,87.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,125U174728
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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)
dimensions QS:P2048,87.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,125U174728
.
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)
dimensions QS:P2048,85.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,122.8U174728
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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)
dimensions QS:P2048,88.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,123U174728
Web Gallery of Art, as Saul and the Witch of Endor, height: 88.3 cm (34.7 in); width: 123 cm (48.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,88.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,123U174728
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Source/Photographer Geheugen van Nederland : Home : Info
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