Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IVth District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jan Claesz van Vlooswijck and Lieutenant Gerrit Hudde, Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy, 1642

Identification

Title(s)

Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IVth District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jan Claesz van Vlooswijck and Lieutenant Gerrit Hudde

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-1177

Description

Schuttersstuk van het korporaalschap van kapitein Jan Claesz Vlooswijck en luitenant Gerrit Hudde, van de Kloveniersdoelen te Amsterdam, 1642. De kapitein en de luitenant zijn gezeten, om hen heen staan de schutters, in het midden de vaandrig. Vermoedelijk bevinden zij zich voor de brouwerij 'De Zwaan'. De schutters zijn: Jan Witsen, Hillebrant Bentes, Andries Dircksen van Saane, Jan Bentes, Willem Simonsz Moons, Jan Huybertsen Codde, Roelof Roelofsen de Lange, IJsbrant van de Wouwer, Johannes Looten, Ulrich Petersen, Jacob Bleyenberch, Pieter Harpertsen, Pieter Tonneman, Evert Huibertsen Krieck, Hendrik Jansen van As en Nicolaes Kuysten. De schutters zijn bewapend met pieken, hellebaarden, lansen en geweren.

Creation

Artist

painter: Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy

Dating

1642

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 340 cm × width 527 cm

Subject

What

Where

Amsterdam

Who

Jan Claesz. van Vlooswijck

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan Dec-1926

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Commissioned by or for the sitters for the great hall of the Kloveniersdoelen (the headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civicguard); first mentioned in the Kloveniersdoelen, 1653 (‘Ibid. [op de grootte kamer] volgende als voren. Jan Claesz Vlooswijck Cap. Gerrit Hudde Lut gedaen aº[...] bij [...]’);{Schaep 1653, p. 136, no. 5. } transferred to the Burgomasters’ Chamber in the town hall by 1758;{Van Dyk 1758, pp. IX, 99-100, no. 53, as Adriaen Backer.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1925

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

De Nachtwacht, Jonathan Bikker, p. 18, afb. 9
The nightwatch, Jonathan Bikker, p. 18, afb. 9
De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 171
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 306-310
Het Rembrandt boek [ : 1 2006], Gary Schwartz, p. 235
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 72
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 217
Odd men out : Govert Flinck and Joachim von Sandrart's civic guard portraits for the Kloveniersdoelen, Jonathan Bikker, Gwen Tauber, p. 261, fig. 2
The Night Watch and the Entry of Marie de'Medici : a new interpretation of the original place and significance of the painting, S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, p. 10, afb. 4
A. Jensen Adams, Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Portraiture and the Production of Community, New York 2009, p. 245, fig. 71

Persistent URL

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