Portrait of Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde, anonymous, c. 1430

Portrait of Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde, anonymous, c. 1430

oil on parchment mounted on plexiglass, h 32cm × w 20cm Catalogue entry

‘Long have I yearned for the man who would open his heart.’ With these words, inscribed in Middle Dutch on the S-shaped banderole, Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde expressed her feelings for her husband. She was from a noble Dutch family and married the knight Simon van Adrichem in 1430. In this portrait she is wearing her wedding jewellery: a necklace, five rings, and a belt with little bells.

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Catalogue entry

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde
Portrait of Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde (?-1472)

Object type

Object number

SK-C-1454

Inscriptions / marks

coat of arms, upper left: divided vertically, 1, a red lion with blue tongue and claws on a gold field, a blue label across its breast, and on the breast, over all, a silver shield charged with a black cogwheel; 2, three black crescent moons on a gold field
inscription, on the scroll: ‘Mi verdriet lange te hopen, Wie is hi die sijn hert hout open.’ (It saddens me to yearn so long. Who is it that will open up his heart.)
inscription, on the reverse of the parchment: ‘Afbeeltsel van Juffer Lijsbeth van Duvoorde, Heer Dircks dochter. Sij troude den 19 Meert ao 1430 aen Symon van Adrichem, Ridder Heer Floris soon, en sterff op Ons heeren hemelvaerts Avond ao: 1472, en is begraven in de Beverwijck in t Reguliersconvent voor het H. Cruys Autaer dat hy (Simon) had doen machen(?)’ (The likeness of Lady Lysbeth van Duvenvoirde, daughter of Lord Dirck. On 19 March 1430 she married Simon van Adrichem, knight, son of Lord Floris, and died on the evening of the Ascension of Our Lord 1472 and is buried in Beverwijk, in the Convent of the Regulars, before the Altar of the Holy Cross that he had ordered to be erected there.)

Description

Portret van Lysbeth van Duvenvoorde (gest. 1472). Staande, tot de enkels, naar rechts. In de linkerhand een banderol met inscriptie. Linksboven het familiewapen. Onderdeel van een tweeluik, de verblijfplaats van de rechtervleugel met het portret van haar echtgenoot (in 1430) Symon van Adrichem is onbekend.

Creation

Artist

painter: anonymous

Place

Cologne (possibly)

Dating

c. 1430

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on parchment mounted on plexiglass

Material

Technique

paint

Measurements

support: height 32 cm × width 20 cm
frame: height 42 cm × width 29.3 cm × thickness 5.9 cm

Subject

What

Who

Lysbeth van Duvenvoorde

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis

Acquisition

loan 1959

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Joannes M.C. van Blaauwsonnevelt van den Bergh (1842-?), Haarlem, 1897;{Coll. cat. The Hague 2004b, p. 356.} …; dealer, Frederik Muller, 1906, as manner of Hubert van Eyck; {Dealer cat. Muller 10 July 1906-15 September 1906} collection X; ...; collection Herman J. Heshuysen, Haarlem, 1910;{Coll. cat. The Hague 2004b, p. 356; note RMA.} …; collection Jonkheer Henry Teixeira de Mattos (1867-1924), Haarlem and Vogelenzang (Huize Teylingerbosch), 1915;{Haarlem 1915, p. no. 348; Note RMA.} his daughter Jonkvrouwe Margaretha A. Teixeira de Mattos (1905-1954) and her husband Pierre van Son (1904-1969), Aerdenhout, 1937;{Coll. cat. The Hague 2004b, p. 356.} …; sale, H.J.J.G.H. Miele (The Hague), Mrs J. Onnen-Vreede (Bilthoven) et al. Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 January 1944 sqq., no. 34, fl. 55,000, to Wilhelm Martin, for the Mauritshuis, The Hague;{Copy RKD.} on loan to the museum since 1959; on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2004-10

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, p. 76-77, cat.nr. 20
1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, p. 76-77, cat.nr. 20
De weg naar Van Eyck, Stephan Kemperdick, Friso Lammertse, p. 254-255, cat.nr. 66
The road to Van Eyck, Stephan Kemperdick, Friso Lammertse, Till-Holger Borchert, p. 254-255, cat.nr. 66
Hollanders in beeld : portretten uit de Gouden Eeuw, p. 19, afb. 3
Dutch portraits : the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, p. 18, afb. 3
Ridderschap in Holland : portret van een adellijke elite in de late Middeleeuwen, Antheun Janse, p. 448
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1400-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Ger Luijten, Hendrik Willem van Os, Frits Scholten, p. 50, cat.nr. 2
Herfsttij der middeleeuwen : studie over levens- en gedachtenvormen der veertiende en vijftiende eeuw in Frankrijk en de Nederlanden, Johan Huizinga, Anton van der Lem, p. 342
Renaissance portraits : European portrait-painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, Lorne Campbell, p. 61
Renaissance portraits : European portrait-painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, Lorne Campbell, p. 61
Early Dutch painting : painting in the northern Netherlands in the fifteenth century, Christopher Brown, Albert Châtelet, Anthony Turner, p. 201, cat.nr. 36
Middeleeuwse kunst der Noordelijke Nederlanden [ : 1 1958a], Karel Gerard Boon, Johanna Laetitia Cleveringa, Bob Haak, Christopher Levenson, Remmet van Luttervelt, D.C. Roëll, Arthur François Emile van Schendel, p. 40, cat.nr. 3
De gebreken van de beeldtaal, H.W. van Os, p. 136
From Master Wilheml to Master Wilhelm : The identity of the Cologne Master of St Veronica, S. Kemperdick
De vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst in het Rijksmuseum
Het vroegste werk van Nederlandse schilders, Wouter Theodoor Kloek
M.M. Tóth-Ubbens, 'Portret van Lijsbeth van Duvenvoorde', Openbaar Kunstbezit (1968) feb., nr. 22, p. 2a-2b

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