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Portraits of a Couple, possibly Pieter Gerritsz Bicker and Anna Codde
Also titled Portretten van een echtpaar, mogelijk Pieter Gerritsz Bicker en Anna Codde
Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerk, 1498–1574)
1529
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 101 cm x width 83.5 cm x thickness 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of D. Katz, Dieren and N. Katz, Dieren
- 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
A man is working on his accounts, while a woman is seated at a spinning wheel. This pair of portraits was probably painted for the couple’s engagement or wedding. He is portrayed as a prudent merchant, she as a diligent housewife. These are two of the earliest portraits of Dutch citizens.
