Portrait of Ernest de Beveren, Lord of West-IJsselmonde and De Lindt
Also titled Portret van Ernest de Beveren, heer van West-IJsselmonde en De Lindt
Aert de Gelder (Dordrecht, 1645–1727)
1685
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 128 cm x width 105 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 25-year-old Ernest de Beveren was the last scion of one of Dordrecht’s most distinguished regent families. He is represented in a fanciful historicizing costume. Emulating Rembrandt, De Gelder painted with broad brushstrokes, used his brush handle to scratch into the paint layer, and introduced similar contrasts of light and dark.
