Portrait of a Woman, probably Machtelt Bas (?-1681)

follower of Dirck van Santvoort, after 1650

Portret van een vrouw. Kniestuk, staande naar rechts voor een balustrade, in de rechterhand een waaier. Linksboven het familiewapen.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-1623
  • Dimensionssupport: height 124.5 cm x width 99.5 cm, outer size: depth 11.5 cm (support incl. SK-L-2039)
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Portrait of a Woman, probably Machtelt Bas (?-1681)
    • Portrait of a woman (former title)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-1623

  • Description

    Portret van een vrouw. Kniestuk, staande naar rechts voor een balustrade, in de rechterhand een waaier. Linksboven het familiewapen.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • coat of arms, top left: divided vertically. 1: a silver eagle with an olive branch in its beak on a blue field. 2, divided horizontally: A, a silver stork on a blue field; B, three blue bars strewn with eleven miniature silver escutcheons, alternating with three red bars
    • date, lower right, on the balustrade: ‘ANº 1641’

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    • painter: follower of Dirck van Santvoort
    • painter: manner of Dirck van Santvoort [rejected attribution]
    • painter: manner of Anthonie Palamedesz [rejected attribution]

  • Dating

    after 1650

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    • support: height 124.5 cm x width 99.5 cm
    • outer size: depth 11.5 cm (support incl. SK-L-2039)

Explanatory note

  • De datering op het schilderij rechts op de balustrade '1641' heeft vermoedelijk betrekking op de ontstaansdatum van het origineel. [D. Horst, 2001].

This work is about

  • Person

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    J. Balguerie-van Rijswijk Bequest, Amsterdam

  • Acquisition

    bequest 1823

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    ? Commissioned by or inherited by Machtelt Bas’s daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Theodore (Dirck) Rijswijck (1668-1729), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Theodora Rijswijck (1695-1752), Amsterdam; ? her son, Daniel Balguerie (1732-1788), Amsterdam; his wife, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 22 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}
    Or:
    ? Commissioned by or inherited by Machtelt Bas’s daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Jan (Jean) Rijswijck (1678-1756), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Johanna Rijswijck (1723-?), Amsterdam; her daughter, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 22 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}

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