Lot 120
  • 120

Pieter Verelst

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Description

  • Pieter Hermansz. Verelst
  • Portrait of a young man offering a drink to a young lady standing by a fountain, a landscape beyond
  • signed and dated on the fountain lower centre: P Verelst f. 1654
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

The symbolism in this portrait - the oyster shell proffered by the young man and the sculpture of Cupid on the fountain - would indicate this may have been intended as a betrothal or marriage portrait.