NICOLAES MAES | PORTRAIT OF BEATRIX SNELS (D. 1678), BUST-LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK DRESS AND A BLACK CAP
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
NICOLAES MAES
Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam
PORTRAIT OF BEATRIX SNELS (D. 1678), BUST-LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK DRESS AND A BLACK CAP
signed and dated in the four spandrels: A./ 1678./ NMAES/ FECIT.
oil on oak panel, in a painted oval
unframed: 32.2 x 24.6 cm.; 12⅝ x 9⅝ in.
framed: 45 x 38 cm.; 17¾ x 15 in.
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The sitter's daughter Geertruid Trigland (b. 1646);
By descent to her daughter Beatrix van Alphen (d. 1728);
By descent to her daughter Beatrix van Assendelft (d. 1746);
By descent to her daughter Maria Anna Pompe van Slingelandt (1746–1805);
By descent to her daughter Maria Susanna Theodora de Wildt (1766–1851), Leiden and Wassenaar;
From whom loaned to the city of Leiden, 1838, no. 34;
By descent to her nephew Frans de Wildt (1805–69), Amsterdam, 1867;
By descent to his daughter Johanna Elisabeth de Wildt (b. 1832);
By descent to her grandson Frans Johan Eliza van Lennep (1890–1980), Amsterdam, 1963;
Anonymous sale, Laren, Christie's, 20 October 1980, lot 216, when acquired.
Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Tentoonstelling van zeldzame en belangrijke schilderijen van oude meesters in de kunstzalen der Maatschappij "Arti et Amicitiae": ten behoeve van het Weduwen – en Weezenfonds, 1876, no. 110;
The Hague, Meisterwerke der Porträtmalerei auf der Ausstellung im Haag, 1903, no. 80;
Liesborn, Museum Abtei Liesborn, on loan;
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 151;
Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Die Geburt des Kunstmarktes. Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen und die Künstler des Goldenen Zeitalters, 23 September 2017 – 7 January 2018, no. 12.
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C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. VI, London 1916, p. 573, cat. no. 421;
Jhr. F.G.L.O. van Kretschmar, 'Iconograpfische sprokkelingen. Een keuze uit enige proeven tot identificatie can onbekende of foutief benaamde portretten', in Jaarboek van het centraal bureau voor genealogie, vol. 21, 1967, pp. 85–87, reproduced fig. 9;
B. Lymant, Niederländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1: Porträt, Liesborn 1985, pp. 22–23, reproduced;
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, pp. 98–99, cat. no. 35, reproduced in colour;
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälde des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), Petersberg 2000, p. 322, cat. no. A199, reproduced fig. 291;
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 137, cat. no. 151, reproduced in colour;
F.W. Kaiser and M. North, Die Geburt des Kunstmarktes. Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen und die Künstler des Goldenen Zeitalters, exh. cat., Munich 2017, p. 36, cat. no. 12, reproduced in colour.
Beatrix Snels was the wife of the Reverend Cornelis Trigland (1609–72), educator of the young Prince William III. She died in 1678, the year this painting was executed. The pendant of this piece depicting the Reverend was painted 17 years earlier by Jan Mijtens; it also sold at Christie's, 20 October 1980, lot 219 and is today in the Paleis Het Loo National Museum, Apeldoorn (inv. no. A5371).[1]