The lost gambler

Cornelis Troost

Troost, Cornelis

1696, Ámsterdam - 1750, Ámsterdam

The lost gambler, c. 1730-1740

© Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza

Signed lower right: "C. Troost"
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Location: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid

Pen and black ink and pastel on blue paper

31,1 x 39,2 cm

CTB.1994.18

Artwork history

  • Sotheby´s Auctions, Amsterdam, lot 28, November 15, 1994

  • Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

  • -Nierneijer, J.W.: Cornelis Troost, Assen, 1973. p. 331, Cat. 624T, illust.

  • – Jeffares, N.: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. London, Unicorn Press, 2006. Cat. J.727.391. p. 9.

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