Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh
Also titled Portret van Jacob van Reygersbergh
Rombout Verhulst (Mechelen, 1624–1698)
in or before 1671
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 55 cm x width 53 cm x depth 35 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
The status of terracotta statuary is not always clear. At times it can be a preparatory sketch, and at others a detailed study for a stone sculpture. Yet it can also be a fully-fledged final product, less expensive than a statue carved in stone. This sensitive portrait of the Zeeland regent Jacob van Reygersbergh was both a model for a marble bust and an independent work of art.
