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Portrait of Johan de Witt
Also titled Portret van Johan de Witt
Artus Quellinus (I) (Antwerp, 1609–1668)
1665
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 85 cm x width 74 cm x depth 38 cm x weight 95 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Dordrechts Museum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The last bust that Quellinus made in Amsterdam was this portrait of Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland and the most powerful man in the Dutch Republic. De Witt was related to and a kindred spirit of the leading Amsterdam regent families. After he and his brother were assassinated in 1672, this bust was used to make various casts, which found their way into the homes of his admirers.
