Monday, August 26, 2019

Lambert Sustris (ca. 1515-ca. 1568) - Venice

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