kunstner: Cornelis Janssens Van Ceulen I
Dato: 1650
Størrelse: 85 x 73 cm
Teknikk: Oil On Canvas
The sitters in this pendant pair are identified by the labels on the back of the paintings, which probably date from the early 19th century. Johan van Someren, who was born in Dordrecht on 3 July 1622, was the alderman responsible for waterways in Dordrecht, and Dike-Reeve of Oud-Beijerland. In 1655 he became Pensionary of Nijmegen. He died in 1676 in his birthplace of Dordrecht. Elisabeth Vervoorn of Gorinchem, whom he married in 1648, was the second of his three wives. Both Van Someren and Vervoorn enjoyed some fame as poets.5 Van Someren (see SK-A-3857) and Vervoorn (shown here) are shown half-length, seated against an indeterminate green-brown background. The pendants are still in their original frames.6 The hand of Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen I is mainly recognizable in the soft, melting outlines. These portraits, which are related to the one of Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck dated 1646,7 are among the most restrained works from the second half of the artist’s career. The attire is sober, there is no jewellery, and the sitters are in stilled poses. Van Someren has his right hand on his heart and his left hand on an open book, probably a Bible.8 Vervoorn has her hands crossed, unlike the elegant hands, some of them fingering their pearl necklaces and bracelets, in many other portraits by this artist.9 Gerdien Wuestman, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 157.
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