Portrait of Oopjen Coppit

Portrait of Oopjen Coppit

SK-C-1768

Oopjen was the eldest of three daughters of an old, affluent Amsterdam family. She sat to Rembrandt one year after her wedding with Marten. She was 23, and pregnant with her first child. The marriage represented an alliance between an established family and one of newcomers. This was celebrated with the commission of monumental likenesses from the city’s leading portraitist, namely Rembrandt van Rijn.

I. Groeneweg, 'Regenten in het zwart: vroom en deftig?', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 46 (1995), pp. 236-37

1634

olieverf op doek

207.5 cm x 132 cm x 3.6 cm

Joint acquisition by the Dutch State and the French Republic, collection Rijksmuseum/collection Musée du Louvre

Public domain

• I. Groeneweg, 'Regenten in het zwart: vroom en deftig?', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 46 (1995), pp. 236-37
• R. Priem, 'The "most excellent collection" of Lucretia Johanna van Winter: the years 1809-22, with a catalogue of the works purchased', Simiolus 25 (1997), p. 103
• H. Havard, 'À propos de deux-tableaux de Rembrandt', Gazette des Beaux-Arts 19 (February 1879), pp. 147-51
• W. Bürger (T. Thoré), 'Les Rembrandts des collections particulières d'Amsterdam', L'Artiste 5 (1858), pp. 20-22
• I.H. van Eeghen, 'Marten Soolmans en Oopjen Coppit', Maandblad Amstelodamum 43 (1956), pp. 85-90
• E. Fromentin, 'Les Maîtres d'Autrefois: Belgique - Hollande', Paris 1875, pp. 347-50

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