Boudewijn van Heusden (830-870) and his Wife Sophia Receiving Homage from the Legate of King Edmund, c. 1626, Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (manner of), c. 1626

Title(s)

Boudewijn van Heusden (830-870) and his Wife Sophia Receiving Homage from the Legate of King Edmund, c. 1626

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-959

Description

Boudewijn van Heusden en zijn echtgenote Sophia, dochter van de Engelse koning Edmund, die eens door Boudewijn ontvoerd was, ontvangen eerbewijzen van de gezant van de Engelse koning Edmund. Links de boodschapper met een brief, in het midden Boudewijn in wapenrusting. Op de achtergrond Kasteel Oudheusden.

Artist

• painter: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (manner of)

Dating

c. 1626

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

• canvas
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

support: height 186 cm × width 279 cm × thickness 3.7 cm (incl. backboard)
outer size: depth 6.5 cm (support incl. frame)
overall: weight 43 kg

What

• historical persons
• historical persons - BB - woman
• delivering; receiving (~ postal matter)

Where

• Kasteel Oudheusden

Who

• Boudewijn I van Heusden
• Sophia Edmundsdr. van Engeland

Credit line

• Gift of the Heusden Council

Acquisition

gift 1879

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 399, 400
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 89