When this panel was in the Kann and Havemeyer collections, it was highly regarded as a Rembrandt. The picture held its place in Rembrandt catalogues through Valentiner’s unreliable corpus of 1931, after which the work was dropped from scholarly discussions for fifty years
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Among hanging lighting devices, one type of lamp — globular in shape with a flaring neck — was especially common in Seljuq times. They are commonly called mosque lamps in reference to the enameled lanterns from Mamluk mosques in Cairo, which often include Qur’anic inscriptions
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Saint Matthew is shown seated in a dark interior lit by an oil lamp and assisted by an angel in his writing of the gospel. The diminutive scenes in the background, whose subjects have been debated, relate to his life as presented in the Golden Legend
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(see Lugt suppl. 2141b)Lower center of mount in ink: 133Marking: Lower right collector’s
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This imposing picture, one of Fei’s most accomplished, is completely intact, with its original engaged frame richly decorated with gilded pastiglia and small cabochon stones alternating with medallions of verre églomisé (see Eisler 1961 for a discussion of this technique)
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