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The Married Couple Abraham Casteleyn and Margarieta van Bancken
Also titled Het echtpaar Abraham Casteleyn en Margarieta van Bancken
Jan de Bray (Haarlem, ca. –1697)
1663
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- F.E. Blaauw Bequest, 's-Graveland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The married couple Margarieta van Bancken and Abraham Casteleyn, founder of the Haerlemse Courant (Haarlem Newspaper), operated In de Blije Druck, the city’s printing shop. The books, atlas, and globe refer to their profession and knowledge. After Abraham’s death, Margarieta continued the printing house, taking on the administrative and financial responsibilities. The bust in the background represents the Haarlem townsman L.J. Coster, long credited with having invented book printing.
