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Portrait Medallion of Cornelis de Graeff
Also titled Portretmedallion van Cornelis de Graeff
Artus Quellinus (I) (Antwerp, 1609–1668)
1660
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 58 cm x width 53 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- 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
Burgomaster Cornelis de Graeff was one of the driving forces behind the construction of Amsterdam’s new town hall. In this depiction, Quellinus portrayed him in profile, just like his wife, Catharina Hooft. This pictorial form is reminiscent of that on Roman coins. The association with the Romans is reinforced by the use of marble and a Latin inscription, in which De Graeff is referred to as ‘consul.’
