Portrait of Magtilda Muilman
Also titled Portret van Magtilda Muilman
Frans van der Mijn (Düsseldorf, 1719–1783)
c. 1745 - c. 1747
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 210 cm x width 154.5 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
Wearing a satin skirt and jacket trimmed with ermine tails, Magtilda Muilman gazes out confidently at the viewer. While her husband, Jan Pranger, is portrayed in the adjacent painting in his study overlooking the Elmina slave fort, Muilman finds herself in a more domestic setting, probably in their home on Amsterdam’s Singel Canal. The picture cabinet in the background features a portrait, possibly of one of Muilman’s ancestors.
