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Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles
The sitter, Adam Wachendorff, can be identified from the family coat of arms on his watch case. He was the secretary of the London offices of the Hanseatic League, a trading alliance of European cities. The Greek inscription on the original frame (‘Man is a soap bubble’) and the naked youth blowing bubbles on the reverse allude to the transience of human life.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- http://iconclass.org/46E221
- http://iconclass.org/49L5
- http://iconclass.org/11R511
- Wachendorff, Adam
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- http://iconclass.org/46E221
- http://iconclass.org/49L5
- http://iconclass.org/11R511
- Wachendorff, Adam
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
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
- 1574
- 1574
Place-Time
- third quarter 16th century
Places
- London
- Londen
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.4157
- London
- United Kingdom
Provenance
- Inv.; from Dr. A. Lapp, Frankfürt,fl.6,300, to Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 1927;{Note RMA.} donated to the museum by Isaäc de Bruijn and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 1949, but kept in usufruct;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1961
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8877
- SK-A-4046
Extent
- height 50.3 cm
- diameter 48.6 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1574
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:05.849Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:59.716Z