Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (left foreground, on tree): DvB [monogram]
Notes The landscape of this picture is the setting for a seldom depicted scene from Christ's ministry: the story of Jairus's daughter and the woman with an issue of blood. Having passed over the Sea of Galilee, Christ was approached by Jairus, who asked him to heal his daughter; just then a woman who had an issue of blood touched the hem of Christ's garment and was healed. People from Jairus's house then came to announce that his daughter had died, upon which Christ went to raise her from the dead (Matthew 9:18–22; Mark 5:22–36; Luke 8:41–50).
Provenance sale, Sotheby's, London, June 21, 1961, no. 64, for £250 to Terry-Engell; [H. Terry-Engell, London, 1961; sold for $2,240 to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, New York, 1961–75; bequeathed by Harry G. Sperling, last surviving partner of firm, to MMA]
Exhibition History London. H. Terry-Engell. "The Netherlands in Landscape," October 25–November 30, 1961, no. 32 (as "Wooded Landscape with Figures").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
References John Walsh Jr. "New Dutch Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum." Apollo 99 (May 1974), pp. 342, 349 n. 5, fig. 4, identifies the subject as the story of Jairus's daughter and the woman with an issue of blood, a "relatively rare scene of Christ's ministry"; notes that with minor variations this painting repeats the composition of a forest scene dated 1602 and formerly in the Perman collection, Stockholm, and another formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, destroyed in World War II.Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 914–16, no. 210, colorpl. 210, fig. 258 (color detail), dates it to the first decade of the seventeenth century.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), p. 59.
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