The railway Museum, Wednesday in New York, a masterpiece by the Utrecht painter Dirck van Baburen’s facility. At an auction at Sotheby’s, the painting was afgehamerd for an amount of 850.000 usd.
the painting, which is called Granida and Daifilo, the Utrecht nobleman Peter van Hardenbroeck (1593-1658 shown, who was in love with the nun Agnes of Hanxelaer. They are left in a 1623 inventory of the monastery in front of him.
In the same year, ordered a Van Hardenbroeck, this painting is in memory of an early love. The lovers are portrayed as Granida, in the Persian princess, and Daifilo, a simple cow-herd.
“We are very proud of the fact that the acquisition of a painting in our collection, to add to that, in all respects, be suitable in Utrecht, which is a very important purchase, not only for our museum, as well as for the Collection,” says the artistic director of the Bart Rutten.
After the acquisition, in 2019, the Godenbanket by Joachim Wtewael, this is the second one on top of the town, within a year’s time, it has to be able to acquire it for the collection of old masters.
