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Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671
Also titled Hieronymus van Beverningk (1614-90). Nederlands buitengewoon ambassadeur, wordt in geheime audiëntie ontvangen door de Spaanse koningin-regentes Maria-Anna van Oostenrijk, 2 maart 1671
Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg, 1639–1684)
1671 - 1675
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10.5 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
Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671, by Caspar Netscher. The expansionist policies of France's King Louis XIV forced the Republic to look for allies. In 1670 a pact was agreed with Spain. Maria Anna of Austria, the Spanish queen regent, received the Dutch diplomat Hieronymus van Beverningk in secret on 2 March 1671 in Madrid. The queen regent is dressed as an abbess (head of a convent). Standing behind the table is one of her advisors. The woman on the right in the foreground is Joanne le Gibbon, wife of Van Beverningk.
