Portrait of Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707), lord of Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland, and Ilpendam. Alderman of Amsterdam, Caspar Netscher, 1663

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707), lord of Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland, and Ilpendam. Alderman of Amsterdam

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-3977

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘CNetscher 1663. AEtat 25’
coat of arms, bottom right: ‘Gevierendeeld: I en IV in rood een omgekeerde zilveren schop, II en III in blauw een zilveren zwaan. Hartschild:?’

Description

Portret van Pieter de Graeff, heer van Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland en Ilpendam. Schepen van Amsterdam. Kniestuk, staande bij een zuil waarop het familiewapen staat. In de handen een hoed en handschoenen. Pendant van SK-A-3978.

Creation

Artist

painter: Caspar Netscher

Dating

1663

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 51 cm × width 36 cm

Subject

Where

Amsterdam

Who

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transfer 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; sale, Abraham Preyer (1862-1927, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 8 November 1927, no. 22, with pendant, SK-A-3978, to Frederik Muller for the dealer Teixeira de Mattos;{Copy RKD.} from whom, fl. 50,000, with SK-A-3978, to Hans Posse, for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer G. Cramer, The Hague, 8 February 1941 (inv. no. 1795);{Schwarz 2004, p. 126, no. VI/43a.} war recuperation, SNK, 4 December 1945 (inv. no. NK 2342);{Provenance from 1913 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 3491.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1392); transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Hollanders van de Gouden Eeuw, p. 49, afb. 40
Karel du Jardin 1626-1678, p. 21, afb. 10
De 250 rijksten van de Gouden Eeuw : kapitaal, macht, familie en levensstijl, Kees Zandvliet, Mariëlle Hageman, Gijs van der Ham, Clé Lesger, p. 93-97 (afb.), cat.nr. 44
Caspar Netscher and late seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, cat.nr. 20
Kopstukken : Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800, Jan Baptist Bedaux, Norbert E. Middelkoop, cat.nr. 31a
'Sir Joan Reynst, his good acquaintance, neighbour, and landlord' : truth and fantasy in Houbraken's life of Karel du Jardin, Jonathan Bikker, p. 96, afb. 23

Persistent URL

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