Pieter Schout on Horseback

Thomas de Keyser (signed by artist), 1660

Equestrian portraits were traditionally the reserve of princes. Accordingly, in the Netherlands very few equestrian portraits were made, except for the court. Only a handful of burghers had themselves immortalized on horseback. Pieter Schout was one such citizen who assumed a princely air. He was bailiff – administrative officer – of Hagestein on the River Lek.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-697
  • Dimensionssupport: height 86.1 cm x width 69.6 cm, frame: height 104.4 cm x width 89 cm, sight size: height 82.8 cm x width 67.2 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on copper

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Pieter Schout on Horseback
    • Portrait of Pieter Schout (1640-69)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-697

  • Description

    Portret van Pieter Schout, drost van Hagestein, te paard in een duinlandschap.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    signature and date, on the saddle, in ligated monogram: ‘TDK.1660’

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Thomas de Keyser (signed by artist)

  • Dating

    1660

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on copper

  • Dimensions

    • support: height 86.1 cm x width 69.6 cm
    • frame: height 104.4 cm x width 89 cm
    • sight size: height 82.8 cm x width 67.2 cm

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  • Person

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam

  • Acquisition

    bequest 1880

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    ? Commissioned by or for the sitter; by descent to Willem Ferdinand Mogge Muilman (1778-1849), Amsterdam;{Smith IX, 1842, p. 206, no. 198.} ? his wife, Magdalena Antonia Muilman (1788-1853), Amsterdam; ? her daughter, Anna Maria van de Poll-Mogge Muilman (1811-78), Amsterdam; her stepson, Jacobus Salomon Hendrik van de Poll (1837-80), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum together with 49 other paintings, 1880{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 162, no. 367 (21 June 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 288, no. 36 (26 June 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 288, no. 37 (29 June 1880); RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 162, no. 370 (30 June 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 289, no. 39 (3 July 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 289, no. 41 (9 July 1880); RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 162, no. 371 (15 July 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 291, no. 50 (10 August 1880). Provenance reconstructed by Cornelis van der Bas, 2003.}

Documentation

  • C. van der Bas, 'The Muilman Collection: the progressive taste of an eighteenth-century banking family', Simiolus 32, nr. 2/3 (2006), p. 173, afb. p. 174.

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