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Lot 125
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Mattheus Terwesten The Hague 1670 - 1757

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Description

  • Mattheus Terwesten
  • ceres holding a silver-gilt bowl surrounded by putti
  • signed and dated on a stone lower centre: M/TERWE/STEN 1732
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Possibly the artist's deceased sale, The Hague, Pictura, 20 September 1757, lot 34 ('een Ceres met Kindertjes en meer Bijwerk door denzelven').

Catalogue Note

Mattheus Terwesten, son of an Augsburg gold- and silversmith, was taught by his elder brother Augustinus, Willem Doudijns and Daniel Mijtens the Younger. He fulfilled a need for decorative painters in early-18th Century The Hague. Terwesten's style varied little throughout his career; this work can be compared with a similar composition of Andromeda, dated 1697, in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig (inv. no. 296).