Portrait of Constantijn Huygens, Jan Lievens, c. 1628 - c. 1629

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Constantijn Huygens
Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687), Lord of Zuylichem. Secretary of the Stadtholder, Prince Frederik Hendrik, and Poet

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-1467

Description

Portret van Constantijn Huygens, heer van Zuylichem. Secretaris van stadhouder prins Frederik Hendrik en dichter. Ten halven lijve, zittend in een stoel naar links, de handen gevouwen in de schoot.

Creation

Artist

painter: Jan Lievens

Dating

c. 1628 - c. 1629

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 99 cm × width 84 cm

Subject

What

historical persons

Who

Constantijn Huygens (I)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Musée de la Chartreuse

Acquisition

loan Oct-1962

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; purchased from Galerie Favart, Paris by Dr Enée Aimé Escallier (1794-1857), Douai, c. 1836;{Foucart in Paris 1970, p. 130.} by whom bequeathed to the Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, as Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1857;{Coll. cat. Douai 1869, pp. 83-84, no. 182.} on loan from the Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, to the museum since 1962

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Rembrandt : the painter thinking, Ernst van de Wetering, p. 37, fig. 33
Nederland in de Gouden Eeuw, p. 31-40, afb. p. 31
The mystery of the young Rembrandt
Rembrandts schatkamer, p. 62, afb. 34
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 347
Het portret van Constantijn Huygens door Jan Lievens, Arthur François Emile van Schendel
E. de Jongh, Constantijn Huygens met bezorgd gelaat, in: Kunstschrift 3 (2009), p. 7, afb. 7
A. Jensen Adams, Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Portraiture and the Production of Community, New York 2009, p. 64, afb. 12

Persistent URL

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