Portrait of Hortensia del Prado (?-1627)

Portrait of Hortensia del Prado (?-1627)

SK-A-910

Portret van Hortensia del Prado, echtgenote van Jean Fourmenois en van Pieter Courten. Buste in ovaal, met een grote kanten kraag. Op de achterzijde de familiewapens en het cijfer 29.

• coat of arms, on the reverse: divided horizontally, A, a Moor’s head with silver headdress on a gold field; B, a gold chevron on a black field
• coat of arms, on the reverse: quartered, 1 and 4, a standing black harrier on a gold field, 2 and 3, a black chevron and three white birds on a red field
• coat of arms, on the reverse: divided horizontally, with 2 further divided horizontally, A, a standing silver ox facing front on a greenfield, B1, three green cloverleafs on a gold field, B2, a green pelican with three chicks on a silver field
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘29’
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘Hortensia del Prado. / Trouwt 1º Jean Fourmenois / 2º Pieter Courten. / Geb: / Overl: 18 Junij 1627.’
• label, on the reverse: ‘Hortensia del Prado / Moeder van mijn Moeder Zr. / Joh. Boudaen 1678’

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

c. 1625

oil on panel

• support: height 72.5 cm x width 58.6 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

**For both the present painting (SK-A-910) and its possible pendant (SK-A-2074)**

…; 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. 5: ‘Hortensia del Prado moeder van mijn moeders suster. Joh. Boudaen 1628’.} ? 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 (inv. no. 3239 ), 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

Yvette; Laar, Michel van de Bruijnen, Geschreven, gestempeld of geplakt : verscholen informatie op de keerzijde van schilderijen, uit: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 54, 2006, 4, pagina 429-449 - p. 436-437, afb. 10

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