Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter

• Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter
• Portrait of Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607-1676)

BK-NM-13150

Rombout Verhulst modelled this portrait in clay while he was designing Michiel de Ruyter’s large tomb monument for the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The sculptor thoroughly studied painted portraits of the admiral for this commission. Verhulst kept this modello in his own possession until his death.

Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (1973), p. 27 (restauratie).

sculptor: Rombout Verhulst, The Hague

in or after 1677 - in or before 1681

terracotta

height 35 cm x width 32 cm x depth 30 cm

On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis

Public domain

…; ? bequeathed by the artist to Mattheus Gool (d. 1702), first counsel to the court of Holland, Zeeland and West Friesland, The Hague, 1698;{Possibly _het geboetseerde portrait van wijlen d´Heer Admirael de Ruijter, van potaarde geformeert_ mentioned in the artist´s will, see M. van Notten, _Rombout Verhulst, beeldhouwer 1624-1698: Een overzicht zijner werken_, The Hague 1907, p. 76.} …; from the Nationale Konst-Gallery, The Hague transferred to the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, het Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1801; on loan to the museum, since 1923

• Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (1973), p. 27 (restauratie).
• Catalogus Mauritshuis (1869), cat.nr. 369.
• Documentatiemap: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (literatuur met opmerkingen); foto.

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