Portrait of Philippus Baldaeus and Gerrit Mossopotam
Also titled Portret van Philippus Baldaeus en Gerrit Mossopotam
Johan de la Rocquette (ca. –na 1)
1668
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 141 cm x width 176 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Philippus Baldaeus was active as a minister for the VOC on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1654 to 1665. Back in the Netherlands, he had this picture painted to commemorate his years of service overseas. The seated Baldaeus wears clothing he brought with him from Asia. He is probably joined here by Gerrit Mossopotam, who resided with Baldaeus in the Netherlands and may have assisted him in translating Christian texts.
