Three Regentesses and the ‘House Mother’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum

• Three Regentesses and the ‘House Mother’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum
• Three regentesses and the housemistress of the Leper-House, Amsterdam

SK-C-419

• inscription, bottom centre: ‘Trijntie ten Bergh / Anna Willekens / Trijntie Weelinx’
• signature and date, bottom centre, on the bag and in the book: ‘valcke... 1624’

The regentesses were responsible for overseeing the domestic affairs of the Lepers’ Asylum. The woman at right is writing on a slate. At the base of the stairs in the background is the poor figure of Lazarus, begging for crumbs from the table of the selfish rich man. This biblical scene is rendered – in natural colours – as though it were part of the portrait.

M. Haveman, 'Levendig en beschrijvend', Kunstschrift (2014) nr. 4, p. 10-11, afb. 5.

painter: Werner van den Valckert

1624

olieverf op paneel

• height 132 cm x width 189.5 cm
• weight 31.2 kg

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Public domain

Commissioned by the regents and regentesses oft he Leper-House, Amsterdam, for the Regentenkamer; transferred to Amsterdam Town Hall, 1860;{Scheltema 1879, p. 51, no. 142.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1885{Provenance reconstructed in Van Thiel 1983d, p. 181, no. 18.}

M. Haveman, 'Levendig en beschrijvend', Kunstschrift (2014) nr. 4, p. 10-11, afb. 5.

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