Portrait of Amalia van Solms (1602-75), Gerard van Honthorst (workshop of), 1650

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Amalia van Solms (1602-75)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-179

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, lower right, on the balustrade (G and H ligated): ‘GHonthorst / 1650’

Description

Portret van Amalia van Solms, de echtgenote van prins Frederik Hendrik. Kniestuk, staande bij een balustrade, rechts een zuil. In de rechterhand een kersentakje. Pendant van SK-A-178.

Creation

Artist

painter: Gerard van Honthorst (workshop of)

Dating

1650

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 125.2 cm × width 102.2 cm

Subject

What

historical persons - BB - woman

Who

Amalia of Solms-Braunfels

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

unknown 1801

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; ? from Mr Hodges, Amsterdam, fl. 100, to the museum, before 1801;{Coll. cat. 1858, p. 69, nos. 147, 148; first recorded in the museum in coll. cat. 1801, p. 50, nos. 126, 127.} on loan to the Hofwijck Huygens Museum, Voorburg, since 2002

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Courtly rivals in The Hague: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) & Amalia von Solms (1602-1675), Nadine Akkerman, p. 14, 16, afb. 23,
Chinese and Japanese porcelain for the Dutch Golden Age, p. 170-189, afb. 1
Vrouwen rondom Huygens, Lea van der Vinde, p. 99-109, cat.nr. 48
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, p. 213-214
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 286
De inrichting van de Nationale Konst-Gallery in het openingsjaar 1800, uit: Oud Holland, 95, 1981, 4, pagina pp. 170-227 - p. 188, afb. 35(zie: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42711068)

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8756

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