The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw

Cornelis Ketel (1548–1616), oil on canvas, 1588

Thirteen self-assured officers of the Amsterdam militia, the city’s armed civic guard, are portrayed here. From 1580, at the initiative of William of Orange, the old militia guilds were refashioned into civic guards organized along military lines. The officers were recruited from the upper levels of society. The dark muzzled dog at right contrasts comically with the jaunty little lapdog at centre jumping up on its owner’s legs.

Artwork typepainting
Object numberSK-C-378
Dimensionsheight 208 cm x width 410 cm
Physical characteristicsolieverf op doek

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Identification

Title(s)
- The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw, Amsterdam, 1588
- The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw
Object type
Object number
SK-C-378
Inscriptions / marks
date: ‘.588’
Description
Thirteen self-assured officers of the Amsterdam militia, the city’s armed civic guard, are portrayed here. From 1580, at the initiative of William of Orange, the old militia guilds were refashioned into civic guards organized along military lines. The officers were recruited from the upper levels of society. The dark muzzled dog at right contrasts comically with the jaunty little lapdog at centre jumping up on its owner’s legs.
Catalogue reference
P. Scheltema, Aemstels Oudheid 7 (1885), p. 134, nr. 24.

Creation

Creation
painter: Cornelis Ketel
Dating
1588
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Material and technique

Physcial description
olieverf op doek
Material
Dimensions
height 208 cm x width 410 cm

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Person
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Place

Acquisition and rights

Credit line
On loan from the City of Amsterdam
Ownership
Copyright
Public domain

Documentation

- P. Scheltema, Aemstels Oudheid 7 (1885), p. 134, nr. 24.
- Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 42/43 (1991/'92), p. 462-463.
- P.T.A. Swillens, 'Beelden en ledepoppen in de schilderkunst', Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten (1947), p. 282, afb. 25.
- A. de Vries in L'Art chretien en Hollande (1881).
- E. de Jongh, Openbaar Kunstbezit 7 (1963), nr. 1, afb.
- F. Schmidt Degener in Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst 59 (1925/'26), p. 175.
- A. Jensen Adams, Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Portraiture and the Production of Community, New York 2009, p. 220, fig. 62
- A. Wallert, B. Schoonhoven, E. Metz, 'Becoming a Virtuoso Painter: Cornelis Ketel's Portrait of Adam Wachendorff and Homo Bulla', in: Making Art in Tudor Britain, Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-2008), internetpublicatie op: http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/making-art-in-tudor-britain/workshops/workshop-3-abstract-11.php
- F. Schmidt Degener in Onze Kunst (1916), p. 83.
- Ann Jensen Adams, 'Civic guard portraits : private interests and the public sphere', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (1995), p. 172, 173, 184.

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