Portrait of a Man, possibly Walterus Fourmenois (1596-1653), Salomon Mesdach (attributed to), 1620

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of a Man, possibly Walterus Fourmenois (1596-1653)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-911

Inscriptions / marks

date, upper right: ‘ANº 1620.’
inscription, on the reverse: ‘Boudaen Courten. / Zoon van Mathias en Margarita Courten. / Geb: / Overl:’ (Boudaen Courten. Son of Mathias and Margarita Courten. Born Died.)
coat of arms, on the reverse: quartered, 1 and 4, a silver chevron with three gold stars on a blue field, and three black martlets in a gold chief; 2 and 3, a standing black harrier on a gold field
inscription, on the reverse: ‘30’

Description

Portret van een man, mogelijk Walterus Fourmenois (1596-1653). Zittend in een stoel, de handschoenen in de linkerhand. Op de achterzijde het familiewapen en het cijfer 30.

Creation

Artist

painter: Salomon Mesdach (attributed to)

Dating

1620

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 104 cm × width 72.1 cm
outer size: depth 6 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

Who

Walterus Fourmenois

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. 18: ‘1620’.} ? 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, 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

Zwart : meesterlijk zwart in mode & kostuum = Black : masters of black in fashion & costume, Kaat Debo, Bianca M. du Mortier, afb. p. 81
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 253-255
Wonen in de Gouden Eeuw : 17de-eeuwse Nederlandse meubelen, Reinier J. Baarsen, afb. 56
Het familjie boeckje van Pieter Boudaen Courten (1594-1668) : memoires van een geportretteerde, Gerdien Wuestman, p. 43, 47, 49, afb. 7

Persistent URL

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