Comments on: Rubens Painting of King David Playing His Harp

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 17:58:04 +0000

Hi! I have a print, too, for more than 40 years. My parents a moving to a home. Is there value to it?

By: Bernd Mengel

Bernd Mengel — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:28:45 +0000

Dear Gary,
sorry I just recognized your question. The paintings by Rubens and specially King David are listed in:
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , vol. 3 (1989), p. 130-131, no. 40. And on minor literature as
Tieze/Haeseler 2009 , p. 324-339 (Staedel Frankfurt); Jaffé 1989 , no. 413
I assume you need to have help from an art historian like me or other experts (be careful with your choice -most of my colleaques are no good people).
If the painting is 17th century try to contact the Rubenianum in Antwerp: http://www.rubenianum.be/nl
and send good Photos or contact me 😉 With best regards Bernd Mengel, Cologne

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:03:59 +0000

Hello my name is Gary Prosser. About two years ago I had an older brother pass away that was a collector of many antique items. One of those items is a picture of King David playing the harp. I am told that the paint is definetly an old masters period painting but it has no signature on it. It looks just like the painting Peter Paul Ruebens did.

I have contacted several major auction houses and they are very interested in selling this painting for me if I could prove who it is by. Is there any thing you can tell me or any place you can dirrect me to that can help me identift it for sure. Or do you know any place that may be interested in purchasing this painting. It had restoration work done on it in 1995 by the
Minnesota institute of art, but they were only able to tell me what restoration work had been done and what my brother spent to have this work done. He spent $2,100 on the restoration work and knowing my brother he never would have spent that amount unless he was pretty sure this was worth a lot more.