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Pompeius Occo
Dirck Jacobsz (ca. –1567)
c. 1531
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 66.5 cm x width 55.1 cm x height 65 cm x width 53.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with a contribution from the J. Loudon Bequest
- 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
Pompeius Occo developed into a key figure in the Northern European economy and was one of Amsterdam’s most prosperous residents. From around 1511, he represented the successful banking and trading house of the Augsburg Fuggers in this emerging metropolis. Occo’s portrait expresses the generally prevailing awareness that all worldly prosperity is transient. His left hand rests almost tenderly on a skull.
