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This portrait was painted when Florentius Josephus van Ertborn was about twenty years old. He was to become Mayor of Antwerp between 1819 and 1827, and instigate the reconstruction of the cathedral tower and refound the Antwerp Academy. He was also to be made Chamberlain to King William I of the Netherlands and Governor of the province of Utrecht.
Van Ertborn was a prodigious collector of pictures by Flemish and Italian 'primitives', which he acquired principally through his agent Joseph Nicollié. His collection included the Calvary by Antonello da Messina, Albrecht Bouts' Adoration of the Shepherds, Jan van Eyck's Virgin by the Fountain, Rogier van der Weyden's Portrait of Philippe de Croy, and Hans Memling's Portrait of Giovanni di Candida. These and 136 other pictures he bequeathed to the city of Antwerp, thus providing the core of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts' collection of Primitives.
Van Ertborn makes an interesting observation on Greuze's technique of painting, probably referring to this very picture in a section of his archives entitled Observation sur la manière de peindre de Greuze: 'Greuze en faisant mon portrait prit un vieux panneau qu'il fit préparer aussi blanc que possible, ce qu'il me conseilla particulièrement comme aussi d'avoir soin qu'il ne soit pas trop lisse pour que la couleur y tienne facilement, et qu'il ne faille pas pour cela le tourmenter' (Cornette, op. cit., p. 23).
A copy on canvas of this picture was in the collection of Count Jean de Marnix de Ste Aldegonde, Kasteel Eyzer, Overrijsche.
Van Ertborn was a prodigious collector of pictures by Flemish and Italian 'primitives', which he acquired principally through his agent Joseph Nicollié. His collection included the Calvary by Antonello da Messina, Albrecht Bouts' Adoration of the Shepherds, Jan van Eyck's Virgin by the Fountain, Rogier van der Weyden's Portrait of Philippe de Croy, and Hans Memling's Portrait of Giovanni di Candida. These and 136 other pictures he bequeathed to the city of Antwerp, thus providing the core of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts' collection of Primitives.
Van Ertborn makes an interesting observation on Greuze's technique of painting, probably referring to this very picture in a section of his archives entitled Observation sur la manière de peindre de Greuze: 'Greuze en faisant mon portrait prit un vieux panneau qu'il fit préparer aussi blanc que possible, ce qu'il me conseilla particulièrement comme aussi d'avoir soin qu'il ne soit pas trop lisse pour que la couleur y tienne facilement, et qu'il ne faille pas pour cela le tourmenter' (Cornette, op. cit., p. 23).
A copy on canvas of this picture was in the collection of Count Jean de Marnix de Ste Aldegonde, Kasteel Eyzer, Overrijsche.