The Painter in his Studio Painting the Portrait of a Married Couple, Herman van Vollenhoven, 1612

Title(s)

The Painter in his Studio Painting the Portrait of a Married Couple

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-889

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date, bottom centre: ‘H. Vollenhove Anº 1612 in Wtre’

Description

De schilder in zijn werkplaats bezig met het portretteren van een echtpaar. De schilder zit achter het schilderij op de ezel met palet, penselen en schildersstok in de hand. Rechts poseert het echtpaar zittend aan een tafel waarop een schedel, brieven en een zandloper staan.

Artist

• painter: Herman van Vollenhoven (signed by artist)

Dating

1612

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

• canvas
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

support: height 87.8 cm × width 111 cm
outer size: depth 9 cm (support incl. frame)

What

• painter working from live model
• portrait, self-portrait of artist
• picture, painting

Who

• Herman van Vollenhoven

Acquisition

purchase 1873

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Related

• AC-00006208object | reproductionobject | reproductieSK1894 18x24RM0001.COLLECT.1500006207

• Portret in portret in de Nederlandse kunst 1550-2012, p. 24, afb. 15
• Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, p. 409
• Museumschatten, Hendrik Willem van Os, p. 9 - 12, afb.
• Robert Fucci, 'Parrhasius and the art of display. The illusionistic curtain in seventeenth-century Dutch painting', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (2015), p. 157, afb. 10.
• Robert Fucci, Parrhasius and the art of display : The illusionistic curtain in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, uit: Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek = Netherlandish yearbook for history of art., 65, 2015, pagina 145-174 - p. 157, afb. 10