Portrait of Cornelis Apostool
Also titled Portret van Cornelis Apostool
Paulus Joseph Gabriël (Amsterdam, 1784–1834)
c. 1817
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 56.5 cm x width 24.7 cm x depth 23 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C. Apostool Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
Apostool was the first director of the Koninklijke Museum in Amsterdam, forerunner of the Rijksmuseum. His portrait was sculpted by the royal sculptor Paulus Gabriël, who chose a Classical form whereby Apostool’s head appears to emerge naturally from a block of stone. This type of portrait, known as a herm, was used mainly for artists and art lovers.
