Abraham de Lust

ABRAHAM DE LUST (active c. 1650-1659).
"Vase."
Oil on canvas. Relined.
It has a frame of the nineteenth century.
Signed.
Measurements: 52 x 39 cm; 58 x 43 cm (frame).
This painting follows a compositional scheme that knew great boom during the baroque. In the way of resolving the diversity of flowers of cheerful colors, in which a dense brushstroke of brilliant pigment has been used. The chromatic juiciness of the floral piece advances rococo solutions, which tend to horror vacui. The painter has frozen the moment of maximum maturity of the flower, prior to its decay. The dark background highlights the light of the still life, extracting a wide range of tonalities. The use of a rich vase and the gold embroidered tablecloth, folded to reveal the bottom, is a feature that Lust used on several occasions due to stylistic influence from Parisian still lifes, especially Jean-Michel Picart (Antwerp circa 1600 - 1682 Paris). This feature indicates that the work surely belongs to an early period of the author, most of whose works clearly date from after his return to Holland, where he came under the influence of Willem van Aelst.
Abraham de Lust is first documented in Amsterdam in the 1650s and more in Lyon, where he was influenced stylistically by contemporary French still life painters. In 1659, de Lust was living in Leeuwarden. De Lust is known to have worked for the local Frisian nobility. There has been some confusion in the past about attributions to Abraham de Lust, as many paintings have been erroneously attributed to Antonie Hendrickz. Lust, an Amsterdam painter born before 1595. This confusion is believed to have originated in an article by Alfred Bredius in 1935, who, unaware of Abraham's existence, mistakenly attributed works to Antonie.