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anonymous

Portrait of Magdalena van Werdenborgh (1464-1538)

Northern Netherlands, after c. 1510

Object data

oil on paper on panel

support: height 18 cm × width 14 cm
depth 4 cm

Inscriptions

  • coat of arms, top left: divided vertically, 1, quartered, i and iv, six gold chevrons on a red field, ii, a diagonal red band on a gold field, iii, two alternately embattled red bands on a gold field; over all an inescutcheon with a white lion on a red field and a black lion on a gold field; 2, a gold portcullis on a red field. Crest: a coronet

Technical notes

The support is a piece of paper, the laid lines of which are visible, which was pasted onto a vertically grained oak plank approx. 0.8 cm thick. The image (17.8 x 13.8 cm) has a border approx. 0.5 cm wide on all sides painted to imitate wood, which continues to the edges. Infrared photography revealed traces of an underdrawing in a dry medium, consisting of stipples and contours. The technique is fairly simple, with the sitter reserved.

Scientific examination and reports

  • condition report: I. Verslype, RMA, 23 July 2007

Condition

Fair. There is discoloured retouching in the background. The coat of arms has been overpainted. The varnish is severely discoloured.

Provenance

…; sale, Frederik Carel Theodoor Baron van Isendoorn à Blois (1784-1865), Kasteel Cannenburg, Vaassen, H.C. Vegtel (†) et al. [section Isendoorn à Blois], Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 7 (8) October 1879 sqq., no. 41, without attribution, fl. 60, to J. Balfoort, Utrecht;1 …; donated by Jonkheer Victor de Stuers (1843-1916), The Hague, to the museum, 1891; on loan to Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, since August 1994

Object number: SK-A-1548

Credit line: Gift of Jonkheer V. de Stuers

Copyright: Public domain

The artist

Citation

M. Bass, 2010, 'anonymous, Portrait of Magdalena van Werdenborgh (1464-1538), Northern Netherlands, after c. 1510', in J.P. Filedt Kok (ed.), Early Netherlandish Paintings, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.4836

(accessed 10 November 2024 07:53:09).

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