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Portrait of Rogier Le Witer
Also titled Portret van Rogier Le Witer
Jacques Jordaens (Antwerp, 1593–1678)
1635
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 152 cm x width 118.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaan Stichting, the Ministerie van OCenW, the…
- 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
As Grand Almoner of Antwerp, the merchant Le Witer was responsible for collecting charitable gifts. On the corner of the table is an object referring to this function, an offering plate with the inscription ‘[A]lemos[e] 1623’, the year in which Le Witer took up this office. The small, fettered figurine indicates that the alms were intended for prisoners.
