Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm (1620-88), Elector of Brandenburg, and his Wife Louise Henriette (1627-67), Countess of Orange-Nassau, Gerard van Honthorst, 1647

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm (1620-88), Elector of Brandenburg, and his Wife Louise Henriette (1627-67), Countess of Orange-Nassau

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-873

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, centre right on the balustrade (G and H ligated): ‘GHonthorst. ƒe 1647’

Description

Portret van Friedrich Wilhelm, keurvorst van Brandenburg, met zijn vrouw Louisa Henrietta, gravin van Nassau, dochter van Frederik Hendrik. Ten voeten uit, staand op een balkon. In het gordijn rechtsboven dragen putti het hoofddeksel en de staf van de keurvorst. Behoort bij de portretten: SK-A-874 en SK-A-871.

Creation

Artist

painter: Gerard van Honthorst (signed by artist)

Dating

1647

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 302 cm × width 194.3 cm
outer size: depth 12.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

When

1620 - 1688

Who

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

nationalization 1795 Sep-1798

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; estate inventory, Huis ten Bosch, The Hague, 1668, no. 1192 (‘Een schildrije met de contrefeytsels van sijn cheurvorstelijcke doorluchtigheyt van Brandenburgh ende mevrouwe de cheurvorstinne, mede zoo groot als ’t leven ende bij den voorschr. Honthorst gedaen’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer I, 1974, p. 282.} estate inventory, Huis ten Bosch, The Hague, 1707, no. 9 (‘Frederik Willem h.l.mem. ceurvorst van Brandenburgen sijne gemaelle dochter van Frederik Hendrik’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer I, 1974, p. 539.} confiscated by the French, 1795; transferred to the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, The Hague, 1876; transferred to the museum, 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Portret in portret in de Nederlandse kunst 1550-2012, p. 116, afb. 20a
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, p. 210
Wonderspiegel van Oranje, Harm Stevens, p. 12-14, afb. 12
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 285
Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7037

Questions?

Do you have a remark or extra information on this object? Please let us know!