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Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles
Also titled Portret van Adam Wachendorff, met een bellenblazende putto
Cornelis Ketel (Gouda, 1548–1616)
1574
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 50.3 cm x diameter 48.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
The sitter, Adam Wachendorff, can be identified from the family coat of arms on his watch case. He was the secretary of the London offices of the Hanseatic League, a trading alliance of European cities. The Greek inscription on the original frame (‘Man is a soap bubble’) and the naked youth blowing bubbles on the reverse allude to the transience of human life.
