Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh

• Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh
• Bust of Jacob van Reygersbergh (1625-1675)

BK-NM-10557

The status of terracotta statuary is not always clear. At times it can be a preparatory sketch, and at others a detailed study for a stone sculpture. Yet it can also be a fully-fledged final product, less expensive than a statue carved in stone. This sensitive portrait of the Zeeland regent Jacob van Reygersbergh was both a model for a marble bust and an independent work of art.

F. Scholten, ‘“Mea Sorte Contentus” : Rombout Verhulst’s Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh’, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 19 (1991), p. 68 met fig. 2.

sculptor: Rombout Verhulst, The Hague

in or before 1671

terracotta

height 55 cm x width 53 cm x depth 35 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1896

Public domain

Commissioned by the sitter, in, or shortly before 1671;{The marble bust in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, inv. no. 84.SA.743), for which this terracotta served as the model, is inscribed 1671.} …; pre-sale collection Jonkheer D.T.A. van den Bogaerde van Terbrugge, Lord of Moergestel (Heeswijk Castle), Den Bosch, late March/early April 1896;{Note RMA.} from the dealer De Groot, fl. 175, to the museum, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1896

• F. Scholten, ‘“Mea Sorte Contentus” : Rombout Verhulst’s Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh’, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 19 (1991), p. 68 met fig. 2.
• A. Pit, 'De verzameling Hollandsch beeldhouwwerk in het Nederlandsch Museum, te Amsterdam', Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond 2 (1900/1901), p. 12.

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20017597