Resumen de "Hiobs Fürbitte vor dem Brandopfer seiner Freunde" - ein wiederentdecktes Werk von Hendrick Bloemaert
A painting in a private Ámsterdam collection, which until now had been attributed to Jacob Adriaensz Backer, shows a surprisingly close relation to the 1633 picture Penitent King David byHendrick Bloemaert in the National Gallery in Prague. After a close comparison with a passage from Scripture (Job chapter 42, verses 7-9) and a print by Adriaen Collaert, based on a drawing by Johannes Stradanus, the subject of the Ámsterdam picture has been determined anew as Job's intercession at the Burnt Offering of His Friends. An analysis of style of the Job-painting, based on a comparison with works by Hendrick Bloemaert and his father Abraham Bloemaert, confirms the attribution to Hendrick Bloemaert. Lastly, the Ámsterdam picture is identified with a painting, assumed to be lost, which according to a source from 1778, was painted by Hendrick Bloemaert and dedicated to the Sint Jobsgasthuis in Utrecht in 1633 and which depicts the "Gebed en Brand-offer van Hiob"
