Portret van Johannes Wesenhagen (1743-1803), Antoine Maucourt, 1781

Identification

Title(s)

Portret van Johannes Wesenhagen (1743-1803)

Object type

miniature (painting)

Object number

SK-A-4900

Inscriptions / marks

inscription: ‘J. Wesenhagen Geboren te Harderwijk Den 11de Aug.t 1743 Geportraiteert door den Kunst Schilder Antoine Maucourt, in de Maand January Aº 1781 Te Paramaribo’

Description

Portret van Johannes Wesenhagen (1743-1803). Ten halven lijve, de rechterhand in de vest gestoken. Geschilderd in Paramaribo. Onderdeel van de collectie portretminiaturen.

Creation

Artist

painter: Antoine Maucourt

Place

Paramaribo

Dating

Jan-1781

Material and Technique

Material

Measurements

height 10.1 cm × width 7.3 cm
height 12.2 cm × width 8.7 cm × depth 1 cm

Subject

What

historical persons

When

1780 - 1803

Where

Paramaribo

Who

Johannes Wesenhagen

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer H. Nijstad, Lochem, fl. 4,200, to the Stichting Cultuurgeschiedenis van de Nederlanders Overzee, with support from the Prins Bernard Fonds, 1968 (inv. no. 65);{Verslagen CNO 1970-71, p. 40, no. 65; Note RMA.} from whom, fl. 100,000, with xx other objects en bloc, to the museum, 1994

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

The first photograph from Suriname : a portrait of the nineteenth-century elite in the West Indies, p. 12, afb. 5
De vroegste foto van Suriname : een portret van de 19de-eeuwse elite in de West, p. 12, afb. 5
Keuze uit de aanwinsten : de collectie CNO, p. 368, afb. 19
H.J. de Graaf, 'Het miniatuurportret van Johannes Wesenhagen', Verslagen en aanwinsten 1968-1969, Stichting cultuurgeschiedenis van de Nederlanders overzee (1970), p. 50-51, met afb.

Persistent URL

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