# Portrait of Pieter de la Court

- By: Abraham van den Tempel (Leeuwarden, ca. –1672)
- Date: 1667
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 133 cm x width 106 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2243--3ae6c15c4c22f8d9be5e3a0b1b2116d1)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2ab4edd72bdd2c86a73dd39f72571547.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Pieter de la Court, son of a Flemish emigrant, was one of the most successful cloth merchants in Holland, as well as a jurist and an influential writer on economics and politics. In his pamphlets, he railed against the House of Orange, and all monarchical governments. Van den Tempel painted him in his judicial robes, seated before a bust of the Greek philosopher Socrates and a classically laid-out garden.