CIRCLE OF ARTUS QUELLINUS THE ELDER (1609-1668), SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN
CIRCLE OF ARTUS QUELLINUS THE ELDER (1609-1668), SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
On an integral square terracotta socle and a cylindrical scagliola column; painted inventory number '21865' to reverse of bust and side of socle
24 in. (61 cm.) high; 46¼ in. (118 cm.) high, the column

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 7 April, 1987, lot 187, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Europaische Barockplastik am Niederrhein: Grupello und seine Zeit, 4 April - 20 June 1971, no. 120.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, nos. 314-316.
Brussels, Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, La sculpture au siècle de Rubens: dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège, 15 July - 2 October 1977, ed. P. Colman, no. 254.

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Lot Essay

The present bust is comparable to the work of Artus Quellinus the Elder and his pupil Rombout Verhulst (1624-1698) when they were working in Amsterdam from the middle of the century onwards. Similarities can be seen in the lively and realistic depiction of Dr Nicolaus Tulp by Quellinus (1654-6; Dusseldorf, loc. cit.) and in a number of busts by Verhulst now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Leeuwenberg, loc. cit.). The sitter also shares some charateristics, such as the narrow face, thin moustache, pulled back hair and flowing locks, with a terracotta bust of a gentleman in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht that is possibly of Quellinus himself (Brussels, loc. cit.).

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