Portrait of Maria van Reigersberch (ca. 1620-1673)
Also titled Portret van Maria van Reigersberch (ca. 1620-1673)
Rombout Verhulst (Mechelen, 1624–1698)
c. 1662
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 45 cm x width 46 cm x depth 30 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
Rombout Verhulst completed the marble tomb for Baron van Liere and his widow, Maria van Reigersberch, in 1663. In preparation for it, he made these portrait studies. Willem van Liere was modelled post-mortem (after his death) in a stiff pose, probably derived from a painted portrait. The bust of Maria van Reigersberch, in contrast, has all of the sensitivity and vitality of a portrait made ‘from life’.
