Mattheus Verheijden (1700-1777)

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Mattheus Verheijden (1700-1777)

A Portrait of Maria van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk, née Van Aerssen van Wernhove seated three quarter Length in a Lace Dress with a Dog in a formal Garden

with inscription 'C Netscher 1673' (recto) and inscribed 'De HoogEd. welgeb. Vrouwe. Maria van Aerssen. getrouwt met Hr. Francois van Aerssen Heere van Sommelsdijk enz ...'(verso); black chalk, grey wash heightened with white, on blue paper, oval
520 x 432 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, De Zon, Amsterdam, 1966

Literature

To be published in Robert Jan te Rijdt's forthcoming article Twee portretidentificaties rond de Haagse schilder Mattheus Verheijden: van Aerssen en Schwencke in De Nederlandsche Leeuw.

Lot Essay

As Te Rijdt points out, this is a portrait of Maria van Aerssen van Wernhove (1682-1761), who married her second cousin Francois van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1669-1740) in 1712. The drawing is based on the portrait by Constantijn Netscher dated 1712, that appeared together with the portrait of Francois van Aerssen on the London art market in 1989. These could be identified on the basis of the present lot, and were made on the occasion of the couple's wedding

See illustration on p.

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