Portrait of Swaddled Twins: The Early-Deceased Children of Jacob de Graeff and Aeltge Boelens

Portrait of Swaddled Twins: The Early-Deceased Children of Jacob de Graeff and Aeltge Boelens

SK-A-981

Portret van een ingebakerde tweeling: de vroeg gestorven kinderen van Jacob de Graeff en Aeltge Boelens. Links- en rechtsboven het familiewapen.

• inscription, top centre: ‘den 7 April 1617’
• coat of arms, top left and top right: quartered: 1 and 4, a reversed vertical silver spade on a red field; 2 and 3, a silver falcon with red cap and spurs on a blue field

painter: anonymous

c. 1617

oil on panel

• support: height 71.6 cm x width 52.5 cm
• sight size: height 71 cm x width 51 cm
• frame: height 90 cm x width 70.1 cm (support incl. frame)

purchase 1872

Public domain

? Commissioned by or for Jacob Dircksz de Graeff (1571-1638) and his wife Aeltge Boelens (1579-1620), Amsterdam; ? his eldest son, Cornelis de Graeff (1599-1664); estate inventory, his eldest son, Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707), Amsterdam, 9 March 1709, attic room (‘Een schilderije van twee gebakerde kindertjens’);{GPI, N-470.} estate inventory, Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707), Huis Ilpenstein, Ilpendam, 16 July 1710, alcove room (‘twee kinderen in de baker’);{Moelker 1978, pp. 64, 68.} ? by descent to Christina Elisabeth de Graeff (1795-1872);{Moelker 1978, pp. 192-93.} sale, Kasteel Ilpenstein (Ilpendam), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 3 December 1872, no. 51, fl. 77, to Bunte;{Copy RKD.}…; purchased by the museum, 1884;{_Verslagen_ 1884, p. 36.} on loan to the Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, Muiden, since 1949

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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