View of Tunis

...; Admiraliteit van Amsterdam (Admiralty of Amsterdam);¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 173. transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: SK-A-1397

View of a harbour with town and ships, seen from the sea.

The Amsterdam Admiralty commissioned Reinier Nooms to make four paintings (this painting and SK-A-1396, SK-A-1398 and SK-A-1399) after peace with Algiers and other North African states was achieved. It is thought that they were intended as a present for Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter, but instead they remained with the Amsterdam Admiralty. In 1663, the Amsterdam-based captain Joris de Caulery received a chain worth a hundred silver ducats from the Staten Generaal in return for his present of these four paintings made by Nooms.²²G. Sanders, Het present van staat. De gouden ketens, kettingen en medailles verleend door de Staten-Generaal, 1588-1795, Hilversum 2013, pp. 249-50.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 173; P.J.J. van Thiel et al., All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: A Completely Illustrated Catalogue, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1976, p. 419; K. Bejjit, ‘Merchants, Diplomats, and Corsairs: The Dutch in Barbary in De Ruyter’s Time’, in J.R. Bruijn et al. (eds.), De Ruyter: Dutch Admiral, Rotterdam 2011, pp. 57-75

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Reinier Nooms, View of Tunis, Amsterdam, 1662 - 1668', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7368