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Abraham Casteleyn and his Wife, Margarieta van Bancken
Abraham Casteleyn and his wife sit holding hands as a sign of marital fidelity. Casteleyn was a printer and the founder of the newspaper Haerlemse Courant. All the objects depicted in the painting, such as the books and globe, allude to his profession and erudition. The portrait bust in the background represents Laurens Janszoon Coster of Haarlem, long considered to be the inventor of the printing…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/49M12
- http://iconclass.org/42D3
- http://iconclass.org/25A13
- http://iconclass.org/48C24
- Haarlem
- Casteleyn, Abraham
- Bancken, Margareta van
- Tachet, Claude Francois
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- F.E. Blaauw Bequest, 's-Graveland
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/49M12
- http://iconclass.org/42D3
- http://iconclass.org/25A13
- http://iconclass.org/48C24
- Haarlem
- Casteleyn, Abraham
- Bancken, Margareta van
- Tachet, Claude Francois
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- F.E. Blaauw Bequest, 's-Graveland
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1663
- 1663
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Provenance
- Inv.; collection widow Francisca Ernestina Blaauw, née Berg (1834-1903), ‘s Gravenhage, 1894;{Utrecht 1894, p. 102, no. 270} her son, Frans Ernst Blaauw (1860-1936), ‘Gooilust’, ‘s Graveland, 1920;{Note RKD.} by whom bequeathed to the museum, 1939
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6225
- SK-A-3280
Extent
- height 83 cm
- width 106.5 cm
- depth 7 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1663
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:07.001Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:45.771Z