Portrait of a Goldsmith, Probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft
Also titled Portret van een goudsmid, waarschijnlijk, Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft
Werner van den Valckert (ca. –in o)
1617
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 66 cm x width 49.5 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
The man leans out of a window. In his right hand he holds up a gold ring set with a stone. His left hand rests on a touchstone, an instrument for assessing the purity of gold and silver objects. The sitter might be the goldsmith Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft. In 1617, the year the portrait was painted, he was appointed assay-master of the Leiden goldsmiths’ guild, which would explain the inclusion of the touchstone.
