Portrait of Jacob Pergens (?-1681)

attributed to Salomon Mesdach, 1619

Portret van Jacob Pergens. Staand, ten halven lijve, de linkerhand in de zij. Op de achterzijde het familiewapen, een inscriptie en het cijfer 41. Pendant van SK-A-919.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-918
  • Dimensionssupport: height 94.7 cm x width 69.1 cm, outer size: depth 7 cm (support incl. frame)
  • Physical characteristicsoil on panel

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Portrait of Jacob Pergens (?-1681)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-918

  • Description

    Portret van Jacob Pergens. Staand, ten halven lijve, de linkerhand in de zij. Op de achterzijde het familiewapen, een inscriptie en het cijfer 41. Pendant van SK-A-919.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • date, upper left: ‘ANº 1619’
    • inscription, on the reverse: ‘41’
    • coat of arms, on the reverse: a red fleur-de-lis on a silver field
    • inscription, on the reverse: ‘Jacob Pergens van Keulen. / Trouwt 15 Julij 1619 / Anna Boudaen Courten. / Geb: / Overl:’

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Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    1619

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on panel

  • Dimensions

    • support: height 94.7 cm x width 69.1 cm
    • outer size: depth 7 cm (support incl. frame)

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Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Jonkheer J. de Witte van Citters Bequest, The Hague

  • Acquisition

    • bequest 1876
    • interne vervaardiging 1876

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    **For both the present painting (SK-A-918) and its pendant (SK-A-919)**

    …; 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. 16 or 17: ‘1619’; no. 16 or 17: ‘1619’.} ? by descent through the families Boudaen Courten, Van Citters, Verheije van Citters, De Witte 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. nos. 3247, 3248), 1876; transferred to the museum, as by an anonymous artist, 1885

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