Portrait of Mertijntje van Ceters (1609-24)

Portrait of Mertijntje van Ceters (1609-24)

SK-A-2076

Portret van Mertijntje van Ceters (1609-24). Zuster van Johan van Ceters. Kniestuk, staande naar rechts. Handschoen in de rechterhand, een waaier in de linkerhand. Rechtsboven het familiewapen.

• inscription, upper left: ‘ÆT.º SVA. 14.’
• date, upper right: ‘AN. / 1623.’
• coat of arms, upper right: on a blue field, a horizontal silver bar with alternating battlements, with seven gold stars (4-3) and a silver top of a shield decorated with floral motifs (damascening). In the escutcheon: a Moor’s head
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘Martinje van Ceters. / Dochter van Aernout en Anna van der Hooge. / Geb: 28 Junij 1609. / Overl: 26 Oct. 1629.’
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘46’

painter: anonymous

1623

oil on panel

• support: height 103.9 cm x width 76.5 cm
• outer size: depth 5.2 cm (support incl. frame)

Jonkheer J. de Witte van Citters Bequest, The Hague

bequest 1876

Public domain

…; ? by descent to Jonkheer Jacob de Witte van Citters (1817-76), The Hague; by whom bequeathed to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1876, but given in usufruct to his sister Carolina Hester de Witte van Citters (1820-1901), The Hague; her husband Arnoldus Andries des Tombe (1818-1902), The Hague; transferred to the museum in 1903; transferred to the Deutsche Informations Bibliothek, December 1943; returned to the museum, September 1944; on loan through the DRVK since 1962

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