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Double Portrait of Isaac Pontanus and Hendrik van Beek
Also titled Dubbelportret van Isaac Pontanus en Hendrik van Beek
Michiel van Musscher (Rotterdam, 1645–1705)
1689
- Medium
- silver (metal), brass (alloy), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- diameter 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
In the past, important events were graced with a medal, especially in well-to-do families. The occasion for this was usually a birth, wedding, or death. These medals not only remained in the family as a memento, but were also given to the guests at the baptism, wedding party, or funeral. Sometimes they were purely private in character, such as the gold medal a grandfather gave to his grandson.
