<p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">The rich man and the poor Lazarus is one of the major historical pieces that Ter Brugghen painted in his last years in Utrecht. The period is characterized by strong contrast between light and dark; massive, three-dimensional forms and sombre, unbroken colours. For aesthetic reasons, a strip of about thirty centimetres (about one foot) was added to the top at a later date.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Lazarus suffered from leprosy, a disease that was seen in the Middle Ages and long after as a punishment from God. For this reason and out of fear of infection, people with leprosy were exciled from the cities.</span></p>
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The rich man and the poor Lazarus is one of the major historical pieces that Ter Brugghen painted in his last years in Utrecht. The period is characterized by strong contrast between light and dark; massive, three-dimensional forms and sombre, unbroken colours. For aesthetic reasons, a strip of about thirty centimetres (about one foot) was added to the top at a later date.Lazarus suffered from leprosy, a disease that was seen in the Middle Ages and long after as a punishment from God. For this reason and out of fear of infection, people with leprosy were exciled from the cities.
Aan de bovenzijde van het doek is over de gehele breedte een strook van ca. 30 cm aangezet. Een tweede versie, doek, ca. 136.7 x 207.5 cm, door H. ter Brugghen en werkplaats, bevindt zich in Bordeaux, Eglise Saint-Ferdinand. Zie Curie en Maisonnave 1997. Een kopie, paneel, 127 x 157 cm, werd aangeboden op de Veiling Fraenzl, Wenen 08-04-1919, cat. nr. 6, met afb. (als Joachim Beuckelaer). Zie Nicolson 1958, cat. nr. A 70, p. 101. Eigendom van G. Otlet in Alicante (1921) blijkt uit het opschrift op de achterzijde van een foto van het schilderij in Kassel, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. Hier wordt een briefwisseling d.d. 12-08-1921, 21-08-1921 en 29-08-1921 vermeld tussen Otlet en de directeur van Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. Schriftelijke mededeling van G.J.M. Weber aan M.J. Bok d.d.05-11-1993.
Documentation
Caravaggio e L'Europa : il movimento caravaggesco internazionale da Caravaggio a Mattia Preti, coord. ed. Franco Ambriosio, (Ginevra, 2005), p. 86, afb. 1 (detail); p. 384, cat. nr. V.15, met afb. in kleur (detail); pp.386-387, afb. in kleur
Caravaggio und die Niederländer, Arthur von Schneider, (Marburg an der Lahn, 1933), p. 38, 41 (in coll. Otlet, Parijs)
De Utrechtse Parade 1495-1995 : van Van Scorel tot Rietveld en Koch, red. Renger de Bruin, Jos de Meyere, Suzanne de Sitter. teksten Hanneke Adriaans, Marja Bosma, Renger de Bruin, Roman Koot, Jos de Meyere, Ida van Zijl, (Utrecht, 1994), p. 128, afb. 63 in kleur
