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

• Portret in portret in de Nederlandse kunst 1550-2012, Sabine E. Craft-Giepmans, Annette de Vries, p. 24, afb. 15
• Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 409
• Museumschatten, p. 9 - 12, afb.
• Parrhasius and the art of display : The illusionistic curtain in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Robert Fucci, p. 157, afb. 10
• Robert Fucci, 'Parrhasius and the art of display. The illusionistic curtain in seventeenth-century Dutch painting', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (2015), p. 157, afb. 10.