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An Amsterdam Burgomaster (?)
Also titled Een Amsterdamse burgemeester (?)
Bartholomeus Eggers (Amsterdam, 1637–voor)
1667
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 46 cm x width 41 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Marble portraits were scarce in the Dutch Republic. At first, they were the privilege of the nobility, but after 1650 the powerful Amsterdam burgomasters (mayors) and their relatives also had themselves portrayed in such an aristocratic fashion. The identity of the sitter in this medallion portrait is unfortunately unknown, but from his elegant clothing he appears to belong to this same Amsterdam patrician class.
