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Portrait of Wilhelmina Hillegonda Schuyt and Joachim Rendorp
Also titled Portret van Wilhelmina Hillegonda Schuyt en Joachim Rendorp
Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
1757
- Medium
- parchment (animal material), pastel (crayon)
- Classification
- frame
- Dimensions
- height 590 mm x width 490 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from L.G. Boreel, Wassenaar
- 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
Shortly after their marriage, this couple had themselves portrayed by Jean-Etienne Liotard, arguably the leading portraitist of his day. Shortly after the completion of these likenesses, Rendorp would become director of the Sociëteit van Suriname, an institution that perpetuated colonisation and slavery. In 1787, their house was plundered during protests. Liotard regularly worked on parchment, especially in combination with pastel chalk, whereby his portraits make a soft and luxurious impression.
