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
  • Dimensionssupport: height 17 cm x width 12.8 cm, outer size: height 29.9 cm x width 26.2 cm x depth 4.8 cm (support incl. frame)
  • 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

    • support: height 17 cm x width 12.8 cm
    • outer size: height 29.9 cm x width 26.2 cm x depth 4.8 cm (support incl. frame)

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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1877

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • 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 23 February 2026 03:29:06).

Footnotes

  • 1M. Klinge, David Teniers de Jonge. Schilderijen, tekeningen, exh. cat. Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten) 1991, nos. 46A/B.