Portrait of a Man, possibly Walterus Fourmenois (1596-1653)

Portrait of a Man, possibly Walterus Fourmenois (1596-1653)

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Portret van een man, mogelijk Walterus Fourmenois (1596-1653). Zittend in een stoel, de handschoenen in de linkerhand. Op de achterzijde het familiewapen en het cijfer 30.

• coat of arms, on the reverse: quartered, 1 and 4, a silver chevron with three gold stars on a blue field, and three black martlets in a gold chief; 2 and 3, a standing black harrier on a gold field
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘30’
• date, upper right: ‘ANº 1620.’
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘Boudaen Courten. / Zoon van Mathias en Margarita Courten. / Geb: / Overl:’

• painter: attributed to Salomon Mesdach
• painter: Salomon Mesdach [rejected attribution]

1620

oil on panel

• support: height 104 cm x width 72.1 cm
• outer size: depth 6 cm (support incl. frame)

Jonkheer J. de Witte van Citters Bequest, The Hague

• bequest 1876
• interne vervaardiging 1876

Public domain

…; documented at Kasteel Popkensburg in an 18th-century manuscript;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, inv. no. 18, ‘Genealogieën, genealogische en heraldische aantekeningen betreffende de familie van Citters en aanverwante families, (17e-19e eeuw): Boudaen (Courten), Walleran Sandra, Fourmenois, Buteux, Hoeufft’, no. 18: ‘1620’.} ? by descent through the families Boudaen Courten, Van Citters, Verheije van Citters, 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;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, inv. no. 1038, ‘Testament van Jacob de Witte van Citters’, 16 June 1875.} transferred to the museum, 1885

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028317