Portrait of Ernst Casimir (1573-1632), Count of Nassau-Dietz, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (workshop of), c. 1623 - c. 1633

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Ernst Casimir (1573-1632), Count of Nassau-Dietz

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-529

Inscriptions / marks

inscription, top: ‘Graef Ernst Casimir van Nassau / Ætatis 59 gebleven voor Ruermondt Aº 1632’ (Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau Perished before Roermond in 1632 aged 59)

Description

Portret van Ernst Casimir (1573-1632), graaf van Nassau-Dietz, stadhouder van Friesland. Buste naar rechts, in wapenrusting. Onderdeel van de reeks portretten afkomstig uit het Stadhouderlijk Hof te Leeuwarden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (workshop of)
painter: Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (rejected attribution)

Dating

c. 1623 - c. 1633

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 29.8 cm × width 24.2 cm

Subject

What

historical persons

Who

Ernst Casimir graaf van Nassau-Dietz

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

nationalization 1795 Sep-1798

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Commissioned by or for Willem Lodewijk (1560-1620), Stadholder of Friesland; inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 16 August 1633, furniture room (‘Graeff Ernst van Nassau’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 38, no. 156.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 12-14 and 27 September 1731, furniture attic (‘Veertig kleine portraitjes gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 418, no. 869.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 1764, furniture attic (‘Tweeënveertig kleine portraitjes, gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer III, 1976, p. 74, no. 1157.}...; first recorded in the museum in 1800/01;{Van Thiel 1981a, p. 191, nos. 50-63, p. 192, nos. 65-78, 79-92.} on loan to the Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, Muiden, 1949-71

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 453, 454
H. Brand en J.W. Koopmans, 'Willem Lodewijk, Stadhouder en strateeg (1560-1620-2020)’, Hilversum 2020, p. 98

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6850

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