Artus Quellinus (I)

Portrait Medallion of Catharina Hooft (1618-1691)

Amsterdam, 1660

Inscriptions

  • Inscription, below the bust, incised: CATHARINA HOOFT.VXOR.CORNELII DE GRAEF.CIC.IC.CLX. AD VIVUM SCUL[p].SIT. A.QUELLIEN

Technical notes

Sculpted in high relief.

Scientific examination and reports

  • condition report: I. Garachon, RMA, 18 maart 2013

Condition

Undamaged.

Conservation

  • I. Garachon, RMA, 2013: I. Garachon, 2013: modern frame (BK-2012-3) removed; cleaned.

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitters, 216 Herengracht, Amsterdam, in or shortly before 1660;1F. Scholten, ‘Portrait Medallion of Catharina Hooft (1618-1691)’, in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam 2024. ? their son Pieter de Graeff (1691-1707), Amsterdam, 1691; …; collection Guillaume Louis Baud (1801-1891), former minister of Colonies, Lausanne, in or before 1881;2Note KOG. from whom, purchased by the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Amsterdam, 1881; on loan to the museum, since 1885

ObjectNumber: BK-KOG-1458-B

Credit line: On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap

Entry

See the entry on BK-KOG-1458-A.

Literature

J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 300; F. Scholten, Gebeeldhouwde portretten/Portrait Sculptures, coll. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1995, no. 17; J. Kiers et al., The Glory of the Golden Age: Dutch Art of the 17th Century: Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Art, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 2000, p. 244 and no. 165); J.P. Filedt-Kok et al., Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum 1600-1700, coll. cat Amsterdam 2001, no. 51; F. Scholten, ‘Quellinus’s Burgomasters: A Portrait Gallery of Amsterdam Republicanism’, Simiolus 32 (2006), pp. 87-125, esp. pp. 101-02 and nos. 12, 13; F. Scholten, Artus Quellinus: Sculptor of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 2010, pp. 51-52, fig. 58

Citation

F. Scholten, 2024, 'Artus (I) Quellinus, Portrait Medallion of Catharina Hooft (1618-1691), Amsterdam, 1660', in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.24783

(accessed 18 July 2025 10:17:07).

Footnotes

  • 1F. Scholten, ‘Portrait Medallion of Catharina Hooft (1618-1691)’, in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam 2024.
  • 2Note KOG.