Pierre de Moucheron (1508-67), his Wife Isabeau de Gerbier, their eighteen Children, their Son-in-Law Allard de la Dale and their first Grandchild

anonymous, 1563

The De Moucheron Family. Antwerp school, 1563. Pierre de Moucheron (1508-1567) and his wife Isabeau de Gerbier are surrounded by their children and grandchildren. Beside Pierre: his son-in-law and sons - oldest to youngest. The daughters are standing beside their mother, also oldest to youngest. Their ages are written above their heads. Pierre de Moucheron and his equally enterprising sons were active at the start of the Dutch Golden Age. Pierre founded a dynasty of Protestant merchants and ship owners. He ran a trading company in Antwerp. When the city fell to Spain in 1585, the firm moved to Middelburg. The towns of Zeeland and Holland profited immensely from the influx of wealthy refugees from the Southern Netherlands.

Artwork typepainting
Object numberSK-A-1537
Dimensionsheight 108 cm x width 246 cm, depth 6 cm, weight 30 kg
Physical characteristicsoil on panel

Identification

Title(s)
Pierre de Moucheron (1508-67), his Wife Isabeau de Gerbier, their eighteen Children, their Son-in-Law Allard de la Dale and their first Grandchild
Object type
Object number
SK-A-1537
Description
Familieportret van Pierre de Moucheron (1508-67), koopman te Middelburg en Antwerpen, zijn echtgenote Isabeau de Gerbier, hun achttien kinderen, hun schoonzoon Allard de la Dale en hun eerste kleinkind. Het gezin staat ten halven lijve rond een rijk gedekte tafel waarop borden en schalen met brood, olijven, fruit, een pastei en gebraden gevogelte. Linksvoor een jongetje met een speelgoed molentje, rechts speelt een meisje op een virginaal.
Inscriptions / marks
- inscription: ‘Etatis Sue 55 1563 / Etatis sue 45’
- date: ‘1563’
- inscription: ‘Omnia dat Dominus non habet ergo minus’

Creation

Creation
- painter: anonymous, Antwerp
- painter: Cornelis de Zeeuw [rejected attribution]
Dating
1563
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Material and technique

Physical description
oil on panel
Dimensions
- height 108 cm x width 246 cm
- depth 6 cm
- weight 30 kg

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Subject

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition
purchase 1890-12
Copyright
Public domain

Documentation

- H. Ost, Ein italo-flämisches Hochzeitsbild und Uberlegungen zur ikonografischen Struktur des Gruppenportraits in 16. Jahrhundert, in: Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch XLI (1980), p. 139, noot 25
- E.E. van Duyn, Van brood tot alcoholdamp. De ontwikkeling van het restauratieberoep in Nederland in de 19de eeuw (doctoraal scriptie), 1996, p. 67
- M. Haveman, 'Levendig en beschrijvend', Kunstschrift (2014) nr. 4, p. 22-23, afb. 19.
- A. Willemsen, Poppe-goed en anders niet, in: Holland, Historisch Tijdschrift (2003) nr. 2, p. 87-89
- P. Philippot, Le portrait à Anvers dans la seconde moitié du XVI siècle, in: Bulletin des Museés Royaux de Belgique, XIV (1965), p. 182, 193, afb. 13
- E. Snoep-Reitsma, Chardin and the Bourgeois Ideals of his Time, in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 24 (1973), p. 213, noot 160
- Benno van Tilburg, 'De familie De Moucheron', Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 19 (1993) nr. 3, p. 8-11.

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