CHRISTOFFEL LUBIENIECKI | Portrait of an elegantly-dressed lady and her son in a landscape before a stone monument

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Peretz, 12 October 1974 (as attributed to Michiel van Musscher; when advertised in Die Weltkunst, vol. 44, no. 18, 1974, p. 1402);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 11 December 1992, lot 286 (as Michiel van Musscher), where acquired.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits,

Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, pp. 90-93, cat. no. 32, reproduced in colour.

Liesborn, Museum Abtei Liesborn, on loan.

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Christoffel Lubieniecki was born to a Polish family of painters, draughtsmen and soldiers, active in Germany and The Netherlands. Christoffel took drawing lessons while training as a soldier, before moving to Amsterdam in 1675, where he was taught to paint by Adriaen Backer. He gained recognition as a portraitist, working in the tradition of earlier 17th-century Dutch painting right up into the 18th century. The largest collection of his work is today in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.