Lot Essay
The sitter was burgomaster of Vianen and married Catharina van Heemskerck in 1610.
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Portrait of Pieter Carel (?-1640), standing half length by a sculpted arch, wearing black costume, black cloak and lace collar, young couples on a bridge by a garden pavilion beyond; and Portrait of Catharina Carel, née van Heemskerck (1588-1670), standing half length before a curtain, wearing a black dress with gold embroidered bodice, lace collar, lace cuffs and bonnet, holding a feathered fan
Details
Circle of Joachim Wttewael (1566-1638)
Portrait of Pieter Carel (?-1640), standing half length by a sculpted arch, wearing black costume, black cloak and lace collar, young couples on a bridge by a garden pavilion beyond; and Portrait of Catharina Carel, née van Heemskerck (1588-1670), standing half length before a curtain, wearing a black dress with gold embroidered bodice, lace collar, lace cuffs and bonnet, holding a feathered fan
the second dated 1626, lower left; both inscribed with the sitters' coats-of-arms upper left; with inscriptions on the stretchers
oil on unlined canvases
78.4 x 66.6 cm and smaller (2)
Portrait of Pieter Carel (?-1640), standing half length by a sculpted arch, wearing black costume, black cloak and lace collar, young couples on a bridge by a garden pavilion beyond; and Portrait of Catharina Carel, née van Heemskerck (1588-1670), standing half length before a curtain, wearing a black dress with gold embroidered bodice, lace collar, lace cuffs and bonnet, holding a feathered fan
the second dated 1626, lower left; both inscribed with the sitters' coats-of-arms upper left; with inscriptions on the stretchers
oil on unlined canvases
78.4 x 66.6 cm and smaller (2)
Literature
E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, I, 1903, no.11050 (her portrait only).