Jan Victors (1619-after 1676)

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Jan Victors (1619-after 1676)

Portrait of Professor Franciscus Burmanus 1628-1679), seated three quarter length at a table by a draped bookcase, wearing black dress and cuffs; and Portrait of Maria Burmanus, née Heydanus (1628-1706), seated three quarter length at a table by a curtain, wearing a black dress with lace collar, cuffs and bonnet

The first with signature upper left Jan Victors, the second signed and indistinctly dated upper right Johannes.Victors.fc.16.5, both with signatures and inscriptions on the reverse of the relined canvases
117 x 96 cm
a pair (2)

来源

By descent to Jonkheer Mr L. van den Berch van Heemstede, The HagueHis Sale, Venduhuis der Notarissen The Hague, 1 November 1966, lot 114

出版

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, I, 1836, p. 210, no. 1836, the woman only, as portrait of Sara Crucius and erroneously dated 1684
G. Isarlo, Rembrandt et son entourage, in La Renaissance, XIX, 1936, no. 9, p. 3, the woman only
Het Rapenburg, III, p. 756
Geschiedenis van het Geslach Wittert, II, p. 1053/55, figs. 11 and 12, as portraits of Christoph van den Berch and Sara Crucius
F.G.L.O. van Kretschmar, Verkeerd benaamde portretten van Professor Franciscus Burmanus en zijn vrouw, in Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, XXI, 1967, pp. 87/90, figs. 10 and 11
D. Miller, Jan Victors, dissertation Delaware, 1983, p. 284, nos. A 17 and A 18, with ills.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, IV, 1989, p. 2617, under no. 1814

拍品专文

The inscriptions on the reverse of the relined canvases identify the sitters as Christoph van den Berch and his wife Sara Crucius. As pointed out by Kretschmar (loc.cit.), this identification has to be rejected because Van den Berch only married Sara Crucius in 1675 and the costumes exclude such a late date of execution. He convincingly states that the sitters should be identified as Sara Crucius' mother and her second husband, whom she married in Leyden in 1665. The identification is further supported by the print of 1680 by A. Vaillant after Nicolaes Maes' portrait of Burmanus (Kretschmar, op.cit., p. 89, fig. 12; the portrait by Maes recorded by Moes as in the University collection, Utrecht, op.cit., p. 148, no. 1304)

Franciscus Burmanus was born in Leyden and became pastor in Hanau in 1650. In 1659 he returned to Leyden and was made Professor in Theology at Utrecht University in 1662. He probably met his future wife, herself daughter of a pastor, in Leyden where she probably returned after being widowed

On the basis of Kretschmar's identification, the dates on the present pictures should read as 1665 - the date of their marriage. Therefore they should be considered as marriage portraits

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