Portrait of Adolf (1540-68), Count of Nassau, Wybrand de Geest (workshop of), c. 1633 - c. 1635

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Adolf (1540-68), Count of Nassau

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-522

Inscriptions / marks

inscription, top left: ‘Graef AdolPH / van Nassau .’
inscription, top right: ‘AEtatis 28 gebleven bij / heijligerlee Aº. 1568’ (Fell at Heiligerlee aged 28, in the year 1568)

Description

Portret van Adolf (1540-68), graaf van Nassau. Buste met het hoofd naar rechts gewend, in wapenrusting. Onderdeel van de reeks portretten afkomstig uit het Stadhouderlijk Hof te Leeuwarden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Wybrand de Geest (workshop of)

Dating

c. 1633 - c. 1635

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 29.5 cm × width 24.1 cm × thickness 1.3 cm
outer size: depth 3 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

historical persons

Who

Adolf graaf van Nassau

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

nationalization 1795 1795

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Commissioned by or for Hendrik Casimir I (1612-40), Stadholder of Friesland; ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 12-14 and 27 September 1731, furniture attic (‘Veertig kleine portraitjes gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 40, no. 194.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 1764, furniture attic (‘Tweeënveertig kleine portraitjes, gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer III, 1976, p. 74, no. 1157.}...; first recorded in the museum in 1800/01;{Van Thiel 1981a, p. 191, nos. 50-63, p. 192, nos. 65-78, 79-92.} on loan to the Oranje-Nassau Museum, The Hague, 1926-32

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 448, 449

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6843

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