Portrait of a Woman, Gerard van Honthorst, 1655

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of a Woman

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-1480

Inscriptions / marks

signature, date and inscription, centre left, with ligated monogram: ‘GH 1655. / Æt 54’

Description

Portret van een vrouw. Kniestuk, zittend aan een tafel waarop een hondje zit. Voorheen beschouwd als een portret van Sophia Coopmans, echtgenote van Gerard van Honthorst. Pendant van SK-A-1479.

Creation

Artist

painter: Gerard van Honthorst (signed by artist)

Dating

1655

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 115.8 cm × width 93 cm
outer size: depth 4.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Dec-1888

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; from Adelaide J.P. Verlinde (1825-1915), widow of Walther W.B. Jansen (1820-82), Alem (near ’s-Hertogenbosch), fl. 1,000, as _Self-Portrait_ and _Portrait of Sophia Coopmans_, to the museum, 1888;{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 168, no. 386 (3 December 1888, no. 2455); RANH, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, p. 205, no. 466 (29 December 1888).} on loan to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1924-42

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 211-212
Portretten van echt en trouw : huwelijk en gezin in de Nederlandse kunst van de zeventiende eeuw, Eddy de Jongh
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 286

Persistent URL

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