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signature, date and inscription, upper left: ‘Ætatis 64. / Aº 1636 / M. Miereveld’
inscription, upper right: ‘Franc. van Aerssen, Heer van Sommelsdijk / en van de Ordre / der Ridderschap van Holland. Overleden 1641’ (Franc. Van Aerssen, Lord of Sommelsdijk and of the Order of the Knighthood of Holland. Died 1641)
coat of arms, top right: quartered, 1 and 4, a saltire chequered black and silver over a horizontal blackbar on a gold field; 2 and 3, three black martlets on a gold field. The coat is set in a chain with a medal hanging from it.
Description
Portret van François van Aerssen, heer van Sommelsdijk, de Plaat en Spijk. Diplomaat in dienst van de Verenigde Nederlanden. Kniestuk, staand, naar rechts. Rechtsboven het familiewapen.
...; sale, M.P.-M.D. et al., Paris (Galerie Charpentier), 7 December 1951, no. 33, fr. 242,400, to the museum; on loan to the Dutch embassy, Paris, since 1958
Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum.
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