Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg

• Portrait van Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburgh
• Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg
• Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg (1583-1641). Wife of the Rotterdam Brewer Dirck Jansz Pesser (1586-1651)

Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg (1583-1641). Wife of the Rotterdam Brewer Dirck Jansz Pesser (1586-1651)

SK-A-4833

signature and date: ‘Rembran... f. 1634’

Rembrandt travelled to Rotterdam to portray the brewing couple Haesje van Cleyburg and Dirck Pesser, who were part of the city’s Remonstrant elite. While at first glance her attire may seem modest, in reality it was quite lavish. The millstone collar around her neck was a very expensive accessory, requiring as much as fifteen metres of fabric.

A. Bredius, Rembrandt : the complete edition of the paintings, revised by H. Gerson, London 1969, nr. 354

painter: Rembrandt van Rijn

1634

olieverf op paneel

height 68.6 cm x width 53.4 cm

Pendant van het portret van haar echtgenoot in het Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum, the State of the Netherlands, the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the Grote Loterij Nederland, the Stichting Klaver Vier, the Stichting Teleslag, the business community and private collectors

purchase 1985-09

Public domain

Commissioned by or for Haesje van Cleyburgh (1583-1641), Rotterdam; ? her daughter, Maria Dircksdr Pesser (?-1675), Rotterdam; ? her husband Reynier Dircksz van der Wolff (1608-79), Rotterdam; ? his daughter, Anna van der Wolff (?-1704), Rotterdam; ? her daughter, Anna van der Linden (1670-1729) and her husband, Wolfgang Abraham, Baron van Gersdorff (1662-1719), The Hague;{There is a wax seal with the Gersdorff coat-of-arms on the reverse.} …; collection Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (1847-1923), 11th Lord Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Scotland, by 1883, until the 1970s;{Von Bode 1883, pp. 405, 592, no. 260; Van Thiel 1989, p. 224.}…; from a foreign foundation, fl. 10,000,000, to the museum, as a gift from the Stichting Jublieumfonds Rijksmuseum to mark the centenary of the Rijksmuseum building, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Algemene Loterij Nederland, and various Dutch businesses and individuals, 1985

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• A. Bredius, Rembrandt : the complete edition of the paintings, revised by H. Gerson, London 1969, nr. 354
• Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt, zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, Maarsen 1984, p. 154, 162, 194, afb. 145
• A. Bredius, Rembrandt : schilderijen, Utrecht 1935, nr. 354
• The Rembrandt Database, Object information, Rembrandt, Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg, dated 163[4], Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A-4833, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/3043/portrait-of-haesje-jacobsdr-van-cleyburg, accessed 2016 February 01
• J.G. van Gelder, 'The Rembrandt-exhibition at Edinburgh', The Burlington Magazine 92 (1950), p. 328
• K. Bauch, Rembrandt Gemälde, Berlin 1966, nr. 492
• E. van de Wetering, Rembrandt : the painter at work, Amsterdam 2009, p. 171, afb. 214
• Mauritshuis en Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, '"Een keuze" : een kleine en persoonlijke keuze van de gastconservator mr. drs. L.C. Brinkman uit de diverse aanwinsten die gedurende de laatste zeven jaar voor de Rijkscollectie zijn verworven', Den Haag 1989, vouwblad nr. 14.
• H. Gerson, Rembrandt paintings, Amsterdam 1968, nr. 169

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