Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter and his Family
Also titled Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter en zijn familie
Juriaen Jacobsz. (Hamburg (stad), 1625–1685)
1662
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 269 cm x width 406 cm x thickness 5.5 cm x weight 71 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
Michiel Adriaansz de Ruyter with his family, by Jurriaen Jacobson, 1662. De Ruyter's glorious career as admiral brought him and his family social status in the Republic and abroad, as this family portrait shows. De Ruyter is holding his staff of office in his left hand. Around his neck is the insignia of the French Order of St. Michel. This was later added to the painting since he only received the chain from the French king, Louis XIV in 1666 (four years after completion of the painting). Seated next to De Ruyter is Anna van Gelder, his third wife. Extreme left is Engel, his son by an earlier marriage. Engel later became a vice-admiral, like his father.
