Group Portrait of an Unidentified Board of Governors, Thomas de Keyser, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Identification

Title(s)

Group Portrait of an Unidentified Board of Governors
Group Portrait of an Unidentified Body

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4236

Description

Groepsportret van een onbekend college. Links en rechts zit mannen in stoelen. De man links houdt een boekje (of doosje) in zijn linkerhand. De persoon rechts heeft een aantal geldstukken in de rechterhand. Tussen hen in staat een derde man (een bode?) die een verzegeld document aanreikt. Op een tafel in het midden staat een weegschaal waarvan de schalen door een draak worden gedragen.

Creation

Artist

painter: Thomas de Keyser

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 126 cm × width 105.8 cm
frame: height 149 cm × width 128.2 cm
sight size: height 125 cm × width 104.2 cm

Subject

What

anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Acquisition

purchase 1973

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; sale, Lord Ravensworth, Ravensworth Castle, Newcastle on Tyne, sold on the premises (Anderson and Garland), 15 June 1920, no. 65, as Ferdinand Bol, to W.E. Duits;{Copy RKD.}...; collection F. Enthoven, Amsterdam (on loan to the museum 1925-28); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 October 1932, no. 13, fl. 5,200, to the dealer Nicolaas Beets;{Copy RMA.}...; collection A.F. Philips, Eindhoven;{Note RMA.}...; from the dealer H. Cramer, The Hague, fl. 150,000, to the museum, as a gift of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Fotocommissie, 1973

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

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 230, 231
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 320
Keuze uit de aanwinsten : [1975-1], p. 29, afb. 2
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Schilderde Thomas de Keyser in 1619 de commissarissen van de Wisselbank?’, Amstelodamum 64 (1977), p. 16-17

Persistent URL

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