Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn (The Hague 1570-1657)

Portrait of Joannes Ruyter, aged five, full-length, in a red costume, holding a red-cheeked parrot, with a hobby horse and drum and chair, a garden beyond

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Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn (The Hague 1570-1657)
Portrait of Joannes Ruyter, aged five, full-length, in a red costume, holding a red-cheeked parrot, with a hobby horse and drum and chair, a garden beyond
signed, inscribed and dated 'JOANNES DE RVYTER PINGEBATVR A.ION RAVES: A DOM MDCXXXII' (lower left)
oil on panel
47.3/8 x 31 in. (120.4 x 79.4 cm.)

Provenance

Laurence J. O'Neill, Dublin.
Anon. sale [Laurence J.O'Neill], Christie's, London, 26 February 1926, lot 61 (250 gns. to Asscher).
Mrs. Ogden Reid, New York.
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 May 1971, lot 31.
Helen Arden Pierce, U.S.A.
with Richard Green.

Sale room notice

Notice to the purchaser:
The loan of this picture has been requested for the forthcoming exhibition of Children's Portraits in the Netherlands 1500-1700 at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp in Autumn 2000.

Lot Essay

Joannes de Ruyter was the eldest son of David de Ruyter (1580-1663), barrister of the High Court of Holland at the Hague and President of the Council of Brabant. He was born in the Hague in 1627 and enrolled as a law student at Leiden University in 1645. He went on to become the High Sheriff of the region of Oosterwijk, in the province of Brabant. He married Elisabeth Virien in 1660 and died in the Hague in 1678.

Ravesteyn completed the portrait of Joannes in 1632. This must have greatly impressed his parents as they commissioned portraits of themselves from the artist in 1639. The portrait of his father is now in the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the portrait of his mother was formerly in the collection of the New York Historical Society.

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