Portrait of Hortensia del Prado (?-1627), Salomon Mesdach (attributed to), c. 1625

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Hortensia del Prado (?-1627)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-910

Inscriptions / marks

label, on the reverse: ‘Hortensia del Prado / Moeder van mijn Moeder Zr. / Joh. Boudaen 1678’ (Hortensia del Prado Mother of my late mother Joh. Boudaen 1678)
inscription, on the reverse: ‘Hortensia del Prado. / Trouwt 1º Jean Fourmenois / 2º Pieter Courten. / Geb: / Overl: 18 Junij 1627.’ (Hortensia del Prado. Marries 1st Jean Fourmenois, 2nd Pieter Courten. Born Died 18 June 1627.)
coat of arms, on the reverse: divided horizontally, A, a Moor’s head with silver headdress on a gold field; B, a gold chevron on a black field
coat of arms, on the reverse: divided horizontally, with 2 further divided horizontally, A, a standing silver ox facing front on a greenfield, B1, three green cloverleafs on a gold field, B2, a green pelican with three chicks on a silver field
coat of arms, on the reverse: quartered, 1 and 4, a standing black harrier on a gold field, 2 and 3, a black chevron and three white birds on a red field
inscription, on the reverse: ‘29’

Description

Portret van Hortensia del Prado, echtgenote van Jean Fourmenois en van Pieter Courten. Buste in ovaal, met een grote kanten kraag. Op de achterzijde de familiewapens en het cijfer 29.

Creation

Artist

painter: Salomon Mesdach (attributed to)

Dating

c. 1625

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 72.5 cm × width 58.6 cm
outer size: depth 6 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

historical persons - BB - woman

Who

Hortensia del Prado

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Jonkheer J. de Witte van Citters Bequest, The Hague

Acquisition

bequest 1876

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; documented at Kasteel Popkensburg in an 18th-century manuscript;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, inv. no. 18, ‘Genealogieën, genealogische en heraldische aantekeningen betreffende de familie van Citters en aanverwante families, (17e-19e eeuw): Boudaen (Courten), Walleran Sandra, Fourmenois, Buteux, Hoeufft’, no. 5: ‘Hortensia del Prado moeder van mijn moeders suster. Joh. Boudaen 1628’.} ? by descent through the families Boudaen Courten, Van Citters, Verheije van Citters, to Jonkheer Jacob de Witte van Citters (1817-76), The Hague; by whom bequeathed to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. 3239 ), 1876;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, inv. no. 1038, ‘Testament van Jacob de Witte van Citters’, 16 June 1875.} transferred to the museum, 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, P. 256, 257
Het familjie boeckje van Pieter Boudaen Courten (1594-1668), Gerdien 1965- Wuestman, p. 49
Seventeenth-century silk lace in the Rijksmuseum, Patricia Wardle, p. 208, afb. 1
Yvette; Laar, Michel van de Bruijnen, Geschreven, gestempeld of geplakt : verscholen informatie op de keerzijde van schilderijen, uit: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 54, 2006, 4, pagina 429-449 - p. 436-437, afb. 10

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9073

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