DOI article:
Witt, Robert A.: Notes on a few pictures recently photographed from the Stockholm Gallery
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It may be interesting to add some further pictures also obviously by
Isaac Luttichuys to the list given by Dr. Wurzbach, which mentions only
those in Stockholm, the Brussels Gallery, and the signed and dated por-
trait of a man which appeared in a sale of Frederick Muller and Co.,
Amsterdam, 1906.
1. In the Rothan Sale, Paris, May, 1890, appeared a full-length por-
trait of a man Standing in a landscape holding his hat, which had passed
through the Beurnonville Collection and was attributed to Thomas de
Keyser. The portrait is however obviously by Isaac Luttichuys.
2. The portrait of a man, three-quarter length, which appeared in the
sale of Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, 1907, there attributed to Van
der Heist, and re-appeared at a Brussels Sale, 1908, under the same ascrip-
tion. It is however by Isaac Luttichuys.
3. In 1908 appeared in a sale at San Gudule, Brussels, a half-length
figure of an astronomer bending over a globe abd holding astronomical
Instruments, signed „Luttichuys“ on the globe.
4. In a sale of Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, 1910, a pair of
portraits correctly ascribed to I. Luttichuys appeared. It was there suggested
that the portraits represented Andreas Deonyszoon Winius (a Dutchman in
the Service of the Czar Alexis of Russia) and his wife, as seems probable
from the map of Russia on the fable. Here again we have in the back-
ground an astronomical globe and the man holds a pair of compasses.
5—7. In the sale of Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, Decem-
ber, 1912, three further portraits, all correctly ascribed to Isaac Luttichuys,
appeared. One, a half-length portrait of a man seated in a chair, signed
„I. Luttichuys 1653.“ The second, a similar figure, perhaps again an astro-
nomer, as a globe appears on a table, signed and dated „I. Luttichuys
1657.“ The third, a companion picture, is that presumably of his wife, Stan-
ding against a pillar and ballustrade.
8. A portrait of a full-length lady, Standing on a terrace against a
balustrade, was sold at Christie’s, February, 1913, under the name of A. Cuyp,
but was obviously by Isaac Luttichuys.
F. Fontebasso (No. 85).
Girl eating from a bowl.
This picture, owing to its strong colour and lighting, suggests the
influence of Piazzetta, but is somewhat drier in technique. A replica of the
picture was recently offered for sale in Copenhagen.
Alexandre Francois Desportes (No. 798).
Dejeuner. Panel, 91 XB8cm.
This fine still-life is fully signed and dated 1729. In composition it
closely resembles the still-life from the Doistau Collection, and is a superb
example of that fine, clear, close technique, in which the master most nearly
approached the great Dutch still-life painters of the latter half of the
17th Century.
It may be interesting to add some further pictures also obviously by
Isaac Luttichuys to the list given by Dr. Wurzbach, which mentions only
those in Stockholm, the Brussels Gallery, and the signed and dated por-
trait of a man which appeared in a sale of Frederick Muller and Co.,
Amsterdam, 1906.
1. In the Rothan Sale, Paris, May, 1890, appeared a full-length por-
trait of a man Standing in a landscape holding his hat, which had passed
through the Beurnonville Collection and was attributed to Thomas de
Keyser. The portrait is however obviously by Isaac Luttichuys.
2. The portrait of a man, three-quarter length, which appeared in the
sale of Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, 1907, there attributed to Van
der Heist, and re-appeared at a Brussels Sale, 1908, under the same ascrip-
tion. It is however by Isaac Luttichuys.
3. In 1908 appeared in a sale at San Gudule, Brussels, a half-length
figure of an astronomer bending over a globe abd holding astronomical
Instruments, signed „Luttichuys“ on the globe.
4. In a sale of Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, 1910, a pair of
portraits correctly ascribed to I. Luttichuys appeared. It was there suggested
that the portraits represented Andreas Deonyszoon Winius (a Dutchman in
the Service of the Czar Alexis of Russia) and his wife, as seems probable
from the map of Russia on the fable. Here again we have in the back-
ground an astronomical globe and the man holds a pair of compasses.
5—7. In the sale of Frederick Muller and Co., Amsterdam, Decem-
ber, 1912, three further portraits, all correctly ascribed to Isaac Luttichuys,
appeared. One, a half-length portrait of a man seated in a chair, signed
„I. Luttichuys 1653.“ The second, a similar figure, perhaps again an astro-
nomer, as a globe appears on a table, signed and dated „I. Luttichuys
1657.“ The third, a companion picture, is that presumably of his wife, Stan-
ding against a pillar and ballustrade.
8. A portrait of a full-length lady, Standing on a terrace against a
balustrade, was sold at Christie’s, February, 1913, under the name of A. Cuyp,
but was obviously by Isaac Luttichuys.
F. Fontebasso (No. 85).
Girl eating from a bowl.
This picture, owing to its strong colour and lighting, suggests the
influence of Piazzetta, but is somewhat drier in technique. A replica of the
picture was recently offered for sale in Copenhagen.
Alexandre Francois Desportes (No. 798).
Dejeuner. Panel, 91 XB8cm.
This fine still-life is fully signed and dated 1729. In composition it
closely resembles the still-life from the Doistau Collection, and is a superb
example of that fine, clear, close technique, in which the master most nearly
approached the great Dutch still-life painters of the latter half of the
17th Century.