Property from the Estate of Phyllis Leibowitz, USA
Lot 46*
Pieter Jansz. Quast(Amsterdam 1606-1647)The Rich Man Beset by Fools
2 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £14,080 inc. premium
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Pieter Jansz. Quast (Amsterdam 1606-1647)
The Rich Man Beset by Fools
signed and dated 'Pieter Quast.f.1640' (upper right), bears signature and date 'Peter Quast.f.16**' (lower right) and numbered '26' (upper left)
pencil on vellum
26.4 x 39.8cm (10 3/8 x 15 11/16in).
signed and dated 'Pieter Quast.f.1640' (upper right), bears signature and date 'Peter Quast.f.16**' (lower right) and numbered '26' (upper left)
pencil on vellum
26.4 x 39.8cm (10 3/8 x 15 11/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Collection of H.C. Valkema Blouw (b.1883), Bodegraven (L.2505)
With Seiferheld and Co, New York
With Bianchini Gallery, New York (according to a label on the reverse)
Collection of Mr and Mrs Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, New York, before 1969 (according to a label on the reverse)
Collection of the late Phyllis Leibowitz, USA
Exhibited
New York, The American Federation of Arts, Old Master Drawings From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, May 1969- December 1970, cat. no. 78
Another work by Quast, on a similarly large scale: 31 x 37.8cm, The Triumph of Folly, and with figures also in a pyramidal arrangement was recorded in the collection of Dr. A. Welcher, Amsterdam, 1942 (see: B.A. Stanton- Hirst, 'Pieter Quast and the Theatre,' Oud Holland, vol. 96, no. 4, 1982, pp. 219-20, fig. 11). The central raised figure in the present work can be compared to that of the Spaniard in Quast's The Mocking of the Spaniard, now in The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. no. 2015.120).
