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Die Frau des Kandaules entdeckt den versteckten Gyges
Kandaules’ Wife Discovering the Hiding Gyges
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Kandaules’ Wife Discovering the Hiding Gyges, ca. 1662

ArtistEglon Hendrik van der Neer, Amsterdam 1634–1703 Düsseldorf
Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame82,3 × 100,3 cm
Dimensions with frame106,5 × 124,5 cm
Status
on display, room 004
About the workTogether with the observer behind the bed, we look at the naked Nyssia, a queen from an ancient saga. Her proud husband Candaules had urged his friend Gyges to see her beauty in secret, but she discovers him. Nyssia will give him the choice of either killing her husband and marrying her or accepting his own death. He decides to take Candaules’ place and becomes king of Lydia, a territory that lies in modern-day Turkey. Eglon van der Neer, who later became a court painter in Düsseldorf, presents the story in an elegant room designed in the style of his own time period.
AccessionAcquisition 1935
Provenance[...]; 1.7.1788 Auktion H. Bredeman, Amsterdam (van der Schley ... Yver), Nr. 104; 1833 Sammlung Peter Norton, London; [...]; 12.6.1835 Auktionshaus Phillips, London, Versteigerung aus der Sammlung der Gräfin Dillon, Brüssel (Käufer unbekannt); 6.-8.5.1861 Verkauf E. Rhoné, Paris, Nr. 42; 15.2.1923 Auktion Paris Drouot, Nr. 165; 24.5.1923 Auktion Paris Drouot, Nr. 83; 1929 Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin; 10.3.1930 Verkauf Brüssel Georges Giroux, Nr. 42.; [...]; spät. 7.7.1933 August Schubert, Mönchengladbach; 1935 angekauft von August Schubert
Inventory numberM 41
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