Object data
oil on canvas
support: height 112 cm × width 90 cm
depth 7 cm
Ferdinand Bol (copy after)
Portrait of Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter (1607-1676)
Netherlands, 1650 - 1750
Provenance
...; Rijkswerf (Navy dockyard) Rotterdam;1 transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: SK-A-2736
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Portrait of Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter, standing in front of a raised curtain with a vague seascape in the background. He wears the chain of the French order of Saint Michael. He holds a baton in his right hand while leaning on a large globe.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 173; P.J.J. van Thiel et al., All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: A Completely Illustrated Catalogue, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1976, p. 126; A. Blankert, Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680): Rembrandt’s Pupil, Amsterdam 1982, no. 82a, pl. 90; R.B. Prud’homme van Reine, ‘De Ruyter in Paint’ in J.R. Bruijn et al. (eds.), De Ruyter: Dutch Admiral, Rotterdam 2011, pp. 218-44
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'copy after Ferdinand Bol, Portrait of Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter (1607-1676), Netherlands, 1650 - 1750', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6115
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