Portrait of Hendrik (1550-74), Count of Nassau, Wybrand de Geest (workshop of), c. 1633 - c. 1635

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Hendrik (1550-74), Count of Nassau

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-524

Inscriptions / marks

inscription, top left: ‘Graef Hendrick / van Nassau’
inscription, top right: ‘AEtatis 24 gebleven / bij Moeck Aº. 1574’ (Fell at Mookerheide aged 24, in the year 1574)

Description

Portret van Hendrik (1550-74), graaf van Nassau. Buste met halsberg, in profiel naar links. 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 29.7 cm × width 24.1 cm × thickness 1.1 cm
outer size: depth 3.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

historical persons

Who

Hendrik 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. 449, 450

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6845

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