Press Release and Images

A Passionate Eye. Ger Luijten and Twelve Years of Acquisitions
Exhibition from 27 April to 7 July 2024
(12 April 2024)

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1. Master of the Egmont Albums (active in the Netherlands in the last quarter of the 16th century), Triumph of Neptune
Pen and dark brown ink, point of the brush and black ink, grey wash, heightened with white bodycolour. – 400 × 519 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2023-T.16
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2. Gherardo Cibo (Rome or Genoa 1512 – 1600 Rocca Contrada), Landscape with a Deer Hunt
Pen and brown ink, blue and brown wash, heightened with white bodycolour, on blue paper. – 198 × 244 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2013-T.1
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3. Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627 – 1687 Dordrecht), Self-Portrait at a Window, c. 1642-43 and 1650
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over traces of black chalk; corrections in pen and brown ink probably by Rembrandt; later additions by the artist in black and red chalk and pen and brown ink. – 170 × 135 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2012-T.4
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4. Abraham Teerlink (Dordrecht 1776 – 1857 Rome), Study of Rocks with Vegetation
Graphite and watercolour. – 643 × 475 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2020-T.51
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5. Rosa Bonheur (Bordeaux 1822 – 1899 Thomery, Seine-et-Marne), The Marshes
Watercolour. – 244 × 384 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2019-T.52
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6. Willem van Nieulandt (Antwerp 1584 – 1635 Amsterdam), Grand View of Rome with Tiber Island, c. 1605-10(?)
Etching from three plates; 420 × 873 mm (plates); 422 × 877 mm (joined sheets)
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2021-P.6
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7. Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 – 1677 London), Commercial Top-Shell (Trochus Niloticus L.), c. 1646
Etching. – 95 × 144 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2020-P.42
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8. Johan Gudmann Rohde (Randers 1856 – 1935 Hellerup), Young Girl Sewing, 1893
Lithography printed on chine collé. – 33,6 × 32,7 cm (platemark); 38 × 37,5 cm (sheet)
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2021-P.5
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9. French or Italian artist, XVIIth century, Portrait of François Langlois, called Ciartres, c. 1630-35
Oil on canvas. – 91,5 × 68,5 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2010-S.61
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10. Simon Kick (Delft 1603 – 1652 Amsterdam), Genre Scene with Soldiers Playing Dice, c. 1645-50
Oil on panel. – 74,6 × 91,4 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2021-S.63
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11. Jacob van Loo (Sluis 1614 – 1670 Paris), Diana and Callisto
Oil on canvas. – 99,1 × 81,3 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2013-S.23
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12. Simon Denis (Antwerp 1755 – 1813 Naples), The Waterfall of Tivoli, with Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Drawing, 1790
Oil on panel. – 48,3 × 62,1 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2021-S.62
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13. Camille Corot (Paris 1796 – 1875 Ville-d’Avray), A City Suburb (Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente), 1851
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas. – 24,5 × 38 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2013-S.29
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14. Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819 – 1891 La Côte-Saint-André), View of the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, c. 1850-52
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas. – 21,3 × 37,3 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2012-S.15
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15. John Constable (East Bergholt 1776 – 1837 London), View of Gardens at Hampstead, with an Elder Tree, c. 1821-22
Oil on cardboard. – 17,6 × 14 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2019-S.58
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16. Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia 1863 – 1923 Cercedilla), Beach of Valencia, c. 1901
Oil on canvas. – 28,3 × 48,4 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2022-S.47
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17. Paul Gauguin (Paris 1848 – 1903 Atuona, Marquesas Islands), Letter to George-Daniel de Monfreid, [Tahiti] November 1900
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2020-A.1
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18. Gèr Boosten (born in Maastricht in 1947), Sketchbook Poilly-lez-Gien, 2013
Pen and black and red ink. – 206 × 293 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2016-T.36
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19. Jozef Van Ruyssevelt (Bazel, Belgium 1941 – 1985 Kalmthout), The Glass Globe, 1981
Pastel (two sheets joined horizontally). – 800 × 1000 mm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2016-T.130
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20. Charles Donker (born in Utrecht in 1940), Crab (“Cancer Pagurus”) in a Box, 1971
Etching; third state. – 204 × 200 mm (platemark); 392 × 282 mm (sheet)
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv. 2015-P.23
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