Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (1593-1661)

Portrait of Anna Reesen, née van der Stringe, half length, wearing a black silk dress with slashed sleeves, lace chemise, a brooch, pearl necklace, earrings and pearl head-dress, inscribed with the coat-of-arms of the sitter upper right - a fragment

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Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (1593-1661)
Portrait of Anna Reesen, née van der Stringe, half length, wearing a black silk dress with slashed sleeves, lace chemise, a brooch, pearl necklace, earrings and pearl head-dress, inscribed with the coat-of-arms of the sitter upper right - a fragment
oil on panel
72.3 x 76.2 cm

Provenance

D. Rademacher, Middelburg, 1772
E.P. Schorer, The Hague, 1905
J.A. Schorer, The Hague
with Katz, Dieren, 1933

Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batavia, II, no.7666

Exhibited

Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 17de eeuwse meesters uit Gelders bezit, 20 June-31 August 1953, no.15

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Johan van der Stringe and Anna van Citters. She married Johan Reesen, who was member of the council of Middelburg from 1653-1665. The present whereabouts of his portrait (Moes, op.cit., no.6363, photograph in the RKD), the pendant to the present lot, is unknown since the sale of 1933.

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