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Abraham de Lust active in Leeuwarden in the middle of the 17th century
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description
- Abraham de Lust
- portrait of a man, possibly a self-portrait, holding a roemer surrounded by a garland of fruit including peaches, grapes and pomegranates
- signed and dated lower right: a. de. Lust 1659
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 28 November 1975, lot 47 (as Abraham de Lust).
Literature
A. van der Willigen and F.G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life Painters..., Leiden 2003, p. 134.
Catalogue Note
Many of Abraham's still lifes have previously been attributed to Antonie Hendricksz. Lust, an Amsterdam painter born before 1595. This confusion was caused by Alfred Bredius' article in Oud-Holland, 1935, who, unaware of the existence of Abraham at the time, identified Antonie as a painter of flowers.
According to Vorenkamp Abraham was living in Leeuwarden in 1659, when he painted this work (see A.P.A. Vorenkamp, Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het Hollandse stilleven in de 17e eeuw, Leiden 1933, p. 127). Furthermore, he is recorded in Amsterdam in the 1650s and in Lyon in 1656 which accounts for the French flavour in this still life.