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Group Portrait of an Unidentified Board of Governors
Also titled Groepsportret van een onbekend college
Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam, ca. –1667)
c. 1625 - c. 1630
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 149 cm x width 128.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het 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 governors of associations, institutions, and businesses took pride in having themselves portrayed as a group. These three unidentified gentlemen are clearly involved with money and precious objects. On the table before them are a pouch with coins and a beautiful ornate scale for weighing gold and other valuables. The man at the right holds a letter of credit. They may well be bankers.
