Lambert Sustris Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1548-51 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Lambert Sustris Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1540-60 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
Lambert Sustris Road to Calvary ca. 1542-48 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
Lambert Sustris Noli me tangere ca. 1548-60 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Lambert Sustris Landscape with Jupiter and Io ca. 1557-63 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
"Another exponent in Venice of Maniera, of a kind that conforms still more recognizably than Schaivone's to the norms of the style outside Venice, is even less than he Venetian in origin: this is Lambert Sustris, an Amsterdamer who came to Venice probably in the middle forties. We know nothing of his education. According to Ridolfi he was in Titian's atelier and much employed there in the North European specialty of landscape painting. He accompanied Titian on his Augsburg trips of 1548 and 1550-51, and remained briefly after Titian left, executing some portraits [examples at the end of this post] that made a skilful compromise between Titian's Augsburg models and a native North European style."
Lambert Sustris Venus and Cupid 1550 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
Lambert Sustris after Titian Reclining Venus ca. 1540-65 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Lambert Sustris Dead Christ supported by Angels before 1568 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
Lambert Sustris after Titian Entombment ca. 1557 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Lambert Sustris Landscape with Shepherd ca. 1560 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Lambert Sustris Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch by the Deacon Philip ca. 1545-50 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
Lambert Sustris Landscape with Antique Ruins and Bathing Women ca. 1552-53 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Even in this wholly Italianized guise Sustris retained certain Netherlandish predilections (which he expressed with great skill in his acquired Venetian Maniera vocabulary), especially for small-figure narratives in extensive landscapes. The paintings of his later years are often sparkling and free in execution, and of a delicacy more precise than Schiavone's; they are more often than Schiavone's responsive to the meanings of their subject matter."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
Lambert Sustris Tobias and the Angel ca. 1560 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Lambert Sustris Portrait of Wilhelm der Ältere 1548 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
Lambert Sustris Portrait of Veronika Vöhlin 1552 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |