Johannes de Maber (died 1702)

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Johannes de Maber (died 1702)

Personifications of Virtue and Diligence by a sculpted pedestal in a landscape, a putto catching gold coins thrown from a cornucopia above and another putto holding a sheaf of corn nearby

signed (strengthened) center right JD Maber, oil on canvas
100 x 155 cm

Provenance

with Derksen, The Hague, 1938
from whom acquired by G.A. Stout, Wassenaar

Literature

A. Bredius, Künstler Inventare, II, 1917, p. 974 (mentioned in the introductory text to the inventory of the artist)
G.A. Stout, J. de Maber, Oud Holland, LXV, 1950, pp. 83/84, fig. 1

Lot Essay

The artist was registered as a citizen of Amsterdam in 1685. At the time of his death, he was recorded in the burial register as a 'Constschilder op de Prinsengracht' (see Bredius, op. cit., p. 976). His son and nephew were also active as painters in Amsterdam in the beginning of the 18th century

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