(Durgerdam 1592–1655 Amsterdam)
Joseph being sold by his brothers, signed and dated: CL M 1639, oil on panel, 36 x 57 cm, framed,

Provenance: A. B. Söderman (1829); Baron Hamilton (1829); Count E. Oxenstjerna (1834); coll. Grubb; Th. M. Huss (1843); M. O. Leman; Bukowski’s auction, Stockholm (1884); S. Rubenson, Stockholm (1912).

Literature: O. Granberg, Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux anciens inconnus jusqu’ici dans les collections privées de la Suède, 1886, p. 193, no. 331; P. Semenow, Etjudy po istorii niderlandskoj zivopisi na osnavanii eja obrazkov nachad jascichhsja v public nych i castrych sobranijacj, vol. II, St. Petersburg, 1890; A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstlerlexikon, vol. II, 1910, p. 174; O. Granberg, Inventaire général des trésors d’art: peintures & sculptures, principalement des maitres étrangers (non scandinaves) en Suède, vol. II, 1912, p. 24, no. 105; Kunstchronik, 1918, p. 19; C. Müller-Hofstede, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Biblischen Historienbildes im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, 1925, p. 78; L. van Puyvelde, The Dutch Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, 1944, see no. 626; H. van Guldener, Het Jozefverhaal bij Rembrandt en zijn School, 1947, pp. 71 and 73; A. Pigler, Barockthemen, vol. I, 1956, p. 87; K. J. Müllenmeister, in: Weltkunst, XXXVII, 1967, p. 167; A. Tümpel, Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert, Katalog der Gemälde, in: Oud Holland, LXXXVIII, 1974, no. 42.
Claes Moeyaert achieved prominence as the creator of biblical, historic and mythological scenes. His biblical history painting is justifiably amongst his most famous work. The present painting, which originates from the well-known collection of the Swedish Count Oxenstjerna, may be numbered amongst the most charming of pictures in this part of his oeuvre.

Provenance: A. B. Söderman (1829); Baron Hamilton (1829); Count E. Oxenstjerna (1834); coll. Grubb; Th. M. Huss (1843); M. O. Leman; Bukowski’s auction, Stockholm (1884); S. Rubenson, Stockholm (1912). Literature: O. Granberg, Catalogue Raisonné des t