Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh and Lieutenant Nanningh Florisz Cloeck, Paulus Moreelse, 1616

Identification

Title(s)

Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh and Lieutenant Nanningh Florisz Cloeck

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-623

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, upper left, on the base of the stone ball (P and M ligated): ‘PMoreelse fecit Aº 1616’

Description

Schuttersstuk van de Kloveniersdoelen met het korporaalschap van kapitein Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh en luitenant Nanningh Florisz. Cloeck. Veertien figuren in twee rijen, de bovenste achter een balustrade. Beneden in het midden de vaandrig, andere schutters met hellebaarden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Paulus Moreelse (signed by artist)

Dating

1616

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 169 cm × width 333.5 cm
outer size: depth 11 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

When

1616 - 1616

Where

Amsterdam

Who

Jacob Gerritsz. Hoyngh

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan Mar-1899

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Commissioned by or for the sitters for the Kloveniersdoelen (headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civic guard); first mentioned in the Kloveniersdoelen, 1653 (‘Ibid. [op de grootte Heere-kamer, sijnde raecx aen de brugh, boven de deur] Jacob Gerritsz Hoing capn, Nanning Florisz Cloeck Lut, ao. 1616. geschildert.’);{Schaep 1653, p. 138, no. 27.} transferred to the Small Council of War Chamber in the town hall by 1758;{Van Dyk 1758, pp. VI, 55-56, no. 26.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1899

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 229
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 287, 288
De 250 rijksten van de Gouden Eeuw : kapitaal, macht, familie en levensstijl, Kees Zandvliet, Mariëlle Hageman, Gijs van der Ham, Clé Lesger, p. 206 (afb.), cat.nr. 115

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.10909

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