Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange, as Widow of William II
Also titled Maria Stuart als weduwe van Willem II
Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem, 1613–1670)
1652
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 199.5 cm x width 170 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
Princess of Orange Mary Stuart I is dressed in white, the traditional colour of mourning for a noble. Her husband, Stadholder William II, had died two years earlier. Mary was keen to secure the succession of her very young son. This portrait alludes to that claim to stadtholdership: she holds an orange, symbolizing the House of Orange. At the left is depicted the Stadtholders’ Gate of the Binnenhof (Inner Court) in The Hague.
