A doctor working in his study, with an assistant preparing medicine in a room beyond

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Christoph Lubienietzki (Stettin 1660-1729 Amsterdam)
A doctor working in his study, with an assistant preparing medicine in a room beyond
signed and dated 'CLubienietski 1728' (CL in monogram, upper right)
oil on panel
16 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (42.2 x 35.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1984, lot 236.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 30 October 1998, lot 28, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Lubienietzki, a Pole, was a pupil of Julien Stur in Hamburg, before moving to Amsterdam, where he is recorded as working in the studio of Gérard de Lairesse in 1675. Unlike his brother, Theodor Lubienietzki, court painter to the Duke of Tuscany and director of the Berlin gallery of the Elector of Brandenburg, who returned to Poland, Christoph settled in Amsterdam, marrying there in 1693. He worked mainly as a portrait painter, and three portraits by him, including a possible self-portrait, are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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