The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw

Cornelis Ketel, 1588

Thirteen self-assured officers of the Amsterdam militia, the city’s armed civic guard, are portrayed here. From 1580, at the initiative of William of Orange, the old militia guilds were refashioned into civic guards organized along military lines. The officers were recruited from the upper levels of society. The dark muzzled dog at right contrasts comically with the jaunty little lapdog at centre jumping up on its owner’s legs.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-C-378
  • Dimensionsheight 208 cm x width 410 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    • The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw
    • The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw, Amsterdam, 1588

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-C-378

  • Description

    Schuttersstuk met het korporaalschap van kapitein Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans en luitenant Pauw, Amsterdam, 1588. Dertien schutters van de Voetboogdoelen, staande naast elkaar, ten voeten uit, de meesten gewapend.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    date: ‘.588’

Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Cornelis Ketel

  • Dating

    1588

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    height 208 cm x width 410 cm

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Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the City of Amsterdam

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Documentation

    • A. Wallert, B. Schoonhoven, E. Metz, 'Becoming a Virtuoso Painter: Cornelis Ketel's Portrait of Adam Wachendorff and Homo Bulla', in: Making Art in Tudor Britain, Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-2008), internetpublicatie op: http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/making-art-in-tudor-britain/workshops/workshop-3-abstract-11.php
    • P. Scheltema, Aemstels Oudheid 7 (1885), p. 134, nr. 24.
    • F. Schmidt Degener in Onze Kunst (1916), p. 83.
    • Ann Jensen Adams, 'Civic guard portraits : private interests and the public sphere', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (1995), p. 172, 173, 184.
    • E. de Jongh, Openbaar Kunstbezit 7 (1963), nr. 1, afb.
    • F. Schmidt Degener in Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst 59 (1925/'26), p. 175.
    • A. Jensen Adams, Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Portraiture and the Production of Community, New York 2009, p. 220, fig. 62
    • Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 42/43 (1991/'92), p. 462-463.
    • A. de Vries in L'Art chretien en Hollande (1881).
    • P.T.A. Swillens, 'Beelden en ledepoppen in de schilderkunst', Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten (1947), p. 282, afb. 25.

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