Portrait of Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert
Artist/Culture
Jan Harmensz Muller
(Dutch, 1571–1628)
Artist/CultureAfter
Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
(Dutch, 1562–1638)
Date1590
Mediumengraving on cream laid paper
Dimensionsimage: 18.5 x 12.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
sheet: 27.4 x 20.8 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
sheet: 27.4 x 20.8 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number1994.228.2
Label TextAside from his intellectual and artistic achievements, Coornhert must have been a charismatic figure, for he was much loved by his students and followers. Cornelis van Haarlem and Jan Muller probably spent time with him in Goltzius’s circle of artists in Haarlem. This small likeness of a smiling Coornhert in a rumpled hat is based on a panel painting of the same size, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is the sort of personal memento that most of us cherish in family photographs. Its publication, soon after the sitter’s death, suggests that he had many admirers.ProvenanceCollector's mark AB (not in Lugt) stamped in violet ink on verso; Purchased from James Bergquist, Boston, MAOn View
Not on view
