Margarita Trip as Minerva, Instructing her Sister Anna Maria Trip
Also titled Margarita Trip die als Minerva haar zuster Anna Maria Trip onderwijst
Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht, 1616–1680)
1663
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 208 cm x width 179 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
In 1662 the fabulously wealthy Trip family moved into the stateliest private residence in all of Amsterdam. Hanging above a mantelpiece in one of the private rooms was this portrait of two of the Trip daughters: Margarita, wearing a helmet and a breastplate, represents Minerva (goddess of art and science), and the eager student kneeling by her side is her eleven-yearold sister Anna Maria. In reality, Anna Maria received instruction from a private tutor.
