Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles, Cornelis Ketel, 1574

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles
Portrait of a Man. On the Verso a Putto Blowing Bubbles

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4046

Inscriptions / marks

signature, date and inscription: ‘CK Anº DNI 1574. AEtatis Suae 35’
inscription: ‘Sermo Dei AEternus Caetera Omnia Caduca’
inscription: ‘[Grieks]’

Description

Portret van een man. Op de keerzijde een bellenblazende putto. De man, waarschijnlijk Adam Wachendorff, is tot aan de heupen voorgesteld, staand bij een tafeltje. In de rechterhand een brief, de linkerhand in de zij. Op tafel liggen papier, een pen, een inktpot en een horloge. Op de keerzijde een naakte bellenblazende putto in een landschap.

Creation

Artist

painter: Cornelis Ketel

Place

London

Dating

1574

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 50.3 cm × diameter 48.6 cm

Subject

What

Who

Adam Wachendorff

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1961

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; from Dr. A. Lapp, Frankfürt,fl.6,300, to Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 1927;{Note RMA.} donated to the museum by Isaäc de Bruijn and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 1949, but kept in usufruct;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1961

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

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. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Kunst voor de beeldenstorm : Noordnederlandse kunst 1525-1580 [ : 1 1986b], Willy C. Halsema-Kubes, Willy Halsema-Kubes, Wouter Theodoor Kloek
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 315
De schilderijen [uit schenking De Bruijn], Johanna Laetitia Cleveringa, Emile Rudolf Meijer, p. 56-57, 64-65, afb. 8-9, cat.nr. 9
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

Persistent URL

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