Frits Lugt - Legacy

Legacy

Frits Lugt survived his wife by less than a year. In his sale catalog for the illustrious 18th century art collector Pierre-Jean Mariette, he signed it as 'your very humble and very dutiful great-great-grand-son'. He certainly managed to collect more art than Mariette. At the time he died, the Lugt collection consisted of about six thousand drawings, thirty thousand prints, and two hundred paintings. His research is preserved in the databases of the RKD, while much of his art is still preserved in Paris.