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拍品專文
The present memorietafel depicts the knight Willem van Boschuysen, burgomaster of Leiden and bailiff of Amstelland, Waterland, Zeevang and Woerden, together with his second wife, Elisabeth Coppier van Calslagen, and their children. Willem van Boschuysen is portrayed on the left as a crusader, holding a palm; behind him are his sons Willem, from his first marriage, Gommer and Jacob. Their daughters Maria Aagte, Cornelia and Margriet, are kneeling behind Elisabeth. The three small children in the middle are probably their deceased son and daughters.
The date of the painting, which appears to read 1596, presents several problems: Willem van Boschuysen married his wife in 1468, and they died in 1505 and 1518 respectively. However, their deaths cannot have been the motive for this memorietafel, since the style of the architectural setting suggests a date far later than 1518. According to Pelinck the costumes can be dated to circa 1518, although he believed the sitters' likenesses to have been taken from an older example and dated the picture to circa 1540. He suggested that the earlier work might have dated from 1505, and that the date might therefore retrospectively read 1505 rather than 1596.
The picture was probably painted for the Pieterskerk in Leiden, where Willem was burgomaster. That hypothesis is strengthened by an entry in Arnoldus Buchelius' Inscriptions monumentaque in templis et monasteriis Belgicis inventa (first half 17th Century) in which he drew the joined coat-of-arms of the Van Boschuysen and Coppier van Calslagen families from a stained glass window in the Pieterskerk; above that coat-of-arms he also drew kneeling figures that resemble the donors in the present picture.
The date of the painting, which appears to read 1596, presents several problems: Willem van Boschuysen married his wife in 1468, and they died in 1505 and 1518 respectively. However, their deaths cannot have been the motive for this memorietafel, since the style of the architectural setting suggests a date far later than 1518. According to Pelinck the costumes can be dated to circa 1518, although he believed the sitters' likenesses to have been taken from an older example and dated the picture to circa 1540. He suggested that the earlier work might have dated from 1505, and that the date might therefore retrospectively read 1505 rather than 1596.
The picture was probably painted for the Pieterskerk in Leiden, where Willem was burgomaster. That hypothesis is strengthened by an entry in Arnoldus Buchelius' Inscriptions monumentaque in templis et monasteriis Belgicis inventa (first half 17th Century) in which he drew the joined coat-of-arms of the Van Boschuysen and Coppier van Calslagen families from a stained glass window in the Pieterskerk; above that coat-of-arms he also drew kneeling figures that resemble the donors in the present picture.