Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’

Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’

SK-A-4981

signature and date: ‘JSteen // 1655’

Legs wide apart and his right arm akimbo, Croeser sits on the stoop of his house on the Oude Delft canal in Delft. His thirteen-year-old daughter Catharina looks straight out at us. Jan Steen included a narrative element in this portrait: a poor woman and child beg for alms from the wealthy grain merchant. In 1657, just two years after this portrait was made, Croeser stood surety for Steen, who was seriously in debt.

'Een raadsel ontsluierd : Jan Steens 'Een burgemeester van Delft en zijn dochter'', Kunstkrant 33 (2007) 1, p. 4-7 met afb.

painter: Jan Havicksz. Steen

1655

olieverf op doek

height 109 cm x width 96 cm x depth 8 cm

Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds, the Nationaal Aankoopfonds of the Ministerie van OCenW, the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the VSBfonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 2004-08-17

Public domain

Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys, the dealer (son of Lambert Jan, see above), London by whom sold to Colonel the Hon. Edward Gordon Douglas (1800-86), later Douglas-Pennant (1841), and 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1866), Penrhyn Castle, Caernavon (Wales); by decent to Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant (1894-1949), 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llandygai, who left Penrhyn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Harper (1923-97), née Pelham, who, with her husband John Charles Harper (?-1998), thereupon assumed the name of Douglas-Pennant;{Provenance reconstructed in Grijzenhout/Van Sas 2006, pp. 15-30} one of their heirs Richard Charles Harper Douglas-Pennant (1955-), € 11,900,000, to the museum, with support from the Nationaal Aankoopfonds from the Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen, sponsor Loterij, Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, Mondriaan Stichting, VSB Fonds, Vereniging Rembrandt, jointly facilitated by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Rijksmuseumfonds, 2004

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.

• 'Een raadsel ontsluierd : Jan Steens 'Een burgemeester van Delft en zijn dochter'', Kunstkrant 33 (2007) 1, p. 4-7 met afb.
• M. van Balen, Een burgemeester van Delft en zijn dochter, Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 5 (2004), p. 14-15.
• T. Dibbits, 'Het contrast tussen arm en rijk', Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 2004, Amsterdam 2005, p. 46-49.
• Documentatiemap.
• R. de Leeuw, Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 14 (2004) 3, p. 18-21.

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