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Portrait of the Van Lennep Family, a Merchant Family in Izmir
Also titled Portret van de familie Van Lennep, een koopmansfamilie in Izmir
Antoine de Favray (Bagnolet, 1706–1791)
1769 - 1771
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 172 cm x width 248 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In the centre of this painting we see David George van Lennep and his wife Anna Maria Leidstar seated on a yellow divan. They belonged to the Levantine elite of the city of Smyrna (now Izmir, in Turkey). These were mostly families originally from the Netherlands who no longer spoke Dutch and had adopted Turkish customs and dress. At the far left is Anna Maria’s father, the textile merchant Justinus Leidstar.
