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Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter
Also titled Portret van Michiel de Ruyter
Rombout Verhulst (Mechelen, 1624–1698)
in or after 1677 - in or before 1681
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 35 cm x width 32 cm x depth 30 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
- 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 modelled this portrait in clay while he was designing Michiel de Ruyter’s large tomb monument for the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. The sculptor thoroughly studied painted portraits of the admiral for this commission. Verhulst kept this modello in his own possession until his death.
