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Elderly Man, Head and Shoulders
anonymous, c. 1650
Een oude man met witte baard. Buste, en face, in een geschilderd ovaal, met een hoed op het hoofd.
- Artwork typepainting
- Object numberSK-A-947
- Dimensionsouter size: height 29.9 cm x width 26.2 cm x depth 4.8 cm (support incl. frame), support: height 17 cm x width 12.8 cm
- Physical characteristicsoil on panel
Identification
Title(s)
Elderly Man, Head and Shoulders
Object type
Object number
SK-A-947
Description
Een oude man met witte baard. Buste, en face, in een geschilderd ovaal, met een hoed op het hoofd.
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Creation
Creation
painter: anonymous, Southern Netherlands
Dating
c. 1650
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Material and technique
Physical description
oil on panel
Dimensions
- outer size: height 29.9 cm x width 26.2 cm x depth 4.8 cm (support incl. frame)
- support: height 17 cm x width 12.8 cm
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Acquisition and rights
Acquisition
purchase 1877
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Provenance
…; from Jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-94), Utrecht, The Hague and Dalfsen, with the rest of his collection, _en bloc_, fl. 20,000, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1878; transferred to the museum, 1885
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anonymous
Elderly Man, Head and Shoulders
Southern Netherlands, c. 1650
Scientific examination and reports
- technical report: M. van de Laar, RMA, 24 januari 2006
- dendrochronology: P. Klein, RMA, 18 februari 2010
Provenance
…; from Jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-94), Utrecht, The Hague and Dalfsen, with the rest of his collection, en bloc, fl. 20,000, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1878; transferred to the museum, 1885
Object number: SK-A-947
Entry
The painting came to the museum as the work of an unknown master and its status remains uncertain; it may well date from about the middle of the seventeenth century and have been executed in the southern Netherlands. The quality is indifferent; the artist was perhaps inspired by David Teniers II’s (1610-1690) renderings of peasants, for instance, the pair in a private collection (ex-The Earls Spencer, Althorp), dated by Klinge to the mid-1640s.1M. Klinge, David Teniers de Jonge. Schilderijen, tekeningen, exh. cat. Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten) 1991, nos. 46A/B. The support of Baltic oak would have been long since available for use.
Gregory Martin, 2022
Collection catalogues
1976, pp. 692-3, no. A 947 (as Southern Netherlands? second quarter of the seventeenth century?)
Citation
G. Martin, 2022, 'anonymous, Elderly Man, Head and Shoulders, Southern Netherlands, c. 1650', in Flemish Paintings in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20027017
(accessed 22 December 2025 00:03:12).Footnotes
- 1M. Klinge, David Teniers de Jonge. Schilderijen, tekeningen, exh. cat. Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten) 1991, nos. 46A/B.