Portrait of Machtelt Bas (?-1681)

Portrait of Machtelt Bas (?-1681)

SK-A-397

Portret van Machteld Bas (gest. 1681), echtgenote van Abraham de Visscher. Onvoltooid werk. Kniestuk staande voor een balustrade waarop enkele rozen liggen. Linksboven het familiewapen. Pendant van SK-A-589.

• label, on the reverse: ‘Deze magteld B[as] / is afgeschilderdt naa / zij haar man / Abraham de Visscher / snagts dood naast / haar zijde vondt.’
• coat of arms, top left: divided vertically. 1: a silver eagle with an olive branch in its beak on a blue field. 2, divided horizontally: A, a silver stork on a blue field; B, four red bars alternating with three blue bars strewn with eleven miniature silver escutcheons

• Peter van den Brink, Jacob Adriaensz. Backer, CD-ROM, Zwolle 1994, cat.nr. A135 [Uitgebreidere bibliografie dan in de gelijknamige catalogus].
• D. de Witt, 'Abraham van den Tempel (1622/3-1672) as a draughtsman', Oud Holland 119 (2006), p. 171, 172, 175, afb. 6.

• painter: attributed to Jacob Adriaensz. Backer
• painter: attributed to Abraham van den Tempel [rejected attribution]

c. 1651

olieverf op doek

• depth 8.5 cm
• height 126 cm x width 98 cm

J. Balguerie-van Rijswijk Bequest, Amsterdam

Public domain

**For both the present painting (SK-A-397) and its pendant (SK-A-589)** ? Commissioned by or for the sitters; ? their daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Jan (Jean) Rijswijck (1678-1756), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Johanna Rijswijck (1723-?), Amsterdam; her daughter, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 21 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).} Or: ? Commissioned by or for the sitters; ? their daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Theodore (Dirck) Rijswijck (1668-1729), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Theodora Rijswijck (1695-1752), Amsterdam; ? her husband, Pierre Balguerie (1679-1759), Amsterdam; ? his son, Daniel Balguerie (1732-1788), Amsterdam; his wife, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 21 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}

• Peter van den Brink, Jacob Adriaensz. Backer, CD-ROM, Zwolle 1994, cat.nr. A135 [Uitgebreidere bibliografie dan in de gelijknamige catalogus].
• D. de Witt, 'Abraham van den Tempel (1622/3-1672) as a draughtsman', Oud Holland 119 (2006), p. 171, 172, 175, afb. 6.

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026392