Portrait of Machtelt Bas (?-1681)

attributed to Jacob Adriaensz Backer, c. 1651

Portret van Machteld Bas (gest. 1681), echtgenote van Abraham de Visscher. Onvoltooid werk. Kniestuk staande voor een balustrade waarop enkele rozen liggen. Linksboven het familiewapen. Pendant van SK-A-589.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-397
  • Dimensionssupport: height 126 cm x width 98 cm, outersize: depth 8.5 cm (support incl. SK-L-6245)
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Portrait of Machtelt Bas (?-1681)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-397

  • Description

    Portret van Machteld Bas (gest. 1681), echtgenote van Abraham de Visscher. Onvoltooid werk. Kniestuk staande voor een balustrade waarop enkele rozen liggen. Linksboven het familiewapen. Pendant van SK-A-589.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • coat of arms, top left: divided vertically. 1: a silver eagle with an olive branch in its beak on a blue field. 2, divided horizontally: A, a silver stork on a blue field; B, four red bars alternating with three blue bars strewn with eleven miniature silver escutcheons
    • label, on the reverse: ‘Deze magteld B[as] / is afgeschilderdt naa / zij haar man / Abraham de Visscher / snagts dood naast / haar zijde vondt.’

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Creation

  • Creation

    • painter: attributed to Jacob Adriaensz Backer
    • painter: attributed to Abraham van den Tempel [rejected attribution]

  • Dating

    c. 1651

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    • support: height 126 cm x width 98 cm
    • outersize: depth 8.5 cm (support incl. SK-L-6245)

This work is about

  • Person

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    J. Balguerie-van Rijswijk Bequest, Amsterdam

  • Acquisition

    • bequest 1823-02
    • bequest 2015-08-20
    • interne vervaardiging 1823-02
    • interne vervaardiging 2015-08-20

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    **For both the present painting (SK-A-397) and its pendant (SK-A-589)**

    ? Commissioned by or for the sitters; ? their daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Jan (Jean) Rijswijck (1678-1756), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Johanna Rijswijck (1723-?), Amsterdam; her daughter, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 21 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}

    Or:

    ? Commissioned by or for the sitters; ? their daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Theodore (Dirck) Rijswijck (1668-1729), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Theodora Rijswijck (1695-1752), Amsterdam; ? her husband, Pierre Balguerie (1679-1759), Amsterdam; ? his son, Daniel Balguerie (1732-1788), Amsterdam; his wife, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 21 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}

Documentation

    • Peter van den Brink, Jacob Adriaensz. Backer, CD-ROM, Zwolle 1994, cat.nr. A135 [Uitgebreidere bibliografie dan in de gelijknamige catalogus].
    • D. de Witt, 'Abraham van den Tempel (1622/3-1672) as a draughtsman', Oud Holland 119 (2006), p. 171, 172, 175, afb. 6.

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