Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (39.1998)

The inventory of 1916 classified the painting as early 18th century Italian;
it was a pendant or other part of a large cycle illustrating the works of Christ
(see the following entry). In 1996 L. Slatkes expressed the opinion that both
paintings seem too good to be works by Bramer; he suggested a northern
Italian painter from the late 17th to early 18th centuries.

5. Leonard Bramer (?) (1596-1674)

Jesus with the Possessed of Gadara (Gerasenes); [Math. VIII, 28]

Oil on canvas, 94.4 x 75 cm, (en grisaille)

Provenance: acąuired November 11, 1891 for 50 rubles by the Museum of
Fine Arts in Warsaw; inv. no. 1353 (as Giuseppe Maria Crespi); sińce 1916 the
National Museum in Warsaw, inv. no. 656, new inv. no. M.Ob.258.

5. Leonard Bramer (?),
Christ and the
Possessed of Gadara
(Phot. Muzeum
Narodowe, Warsaw)

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