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Portrait of a Goldsmith, Probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft
The man leans out of a window. In his right hand he holds up a gold ring set with a stone. His left hand rests on a touchstone, an instrument for assessing the purity of gold and silver objects. The sitter might be the goldsmith Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft. In 1617, the year the portrait was painted, he was appointed assay-master of the Leiden goldsmiths’ guild, which would explain the inclu…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41D2664
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Ring
- Assendelft, Bartholomeus Jansz van
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41D2664
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Ring
- Assendelft, Bartholomeus Jansz van
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1617
- 1617
Place-Time
- first quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ? Commissioned by Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft (1585-1658), Leiden; ? his son, Jan van Assendelft (1620-68), Leiden; ? his son, Barthout Jansz van Assendelft (1659-1722), Leiden; ? or his son, Adriaan van Assendelft (1626-97), Leiden; ? his son, Jan Adriaansz van Assendelft (1659-1728), Leiden; ? his son, Adriaan van Assendelft (1691-1752), Leiden; ? his son, Barthout Adriaansz van Assendelft (1733-84), Leiden; ? the daughter of his half-sister, Maria Anna Pompe van Slingelandt (1746-1805), the wife of Hugo de Wildt, Leiden; ? by descent to Frans de Wildt (1805-69), Leiden; ? Agnes W. de Wildt (1835-1905), Leiden; her daughter, Jonkvrouw Isabella F. Mollerus (1863-1920), Leiden, wife of Baron Dirk van Asbeck; his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 30 November 1920, no. 1015, to Antoon van Welie (1866-1956), The Hague; from his estate, fl. 7,500, to the museum, 1957{Provenance reconstructed in Ekkart 1999, pp. 20-25.}
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5627
- SK-A-3920
Extent
- height 66 cm
- width 49.5 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1617
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:58.645Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:58.107Z