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Portrait of Magdalena de Cuyper
Also titled Portret van Magdalena de Cuyper
Jacques Jordaens (Antwerp, 1593–1678)
c. 1635 - c. 1636
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 152 cm x width 118 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
Magdalena de Cuyper is portrayed as a widow, with a black cap, a prayer book, and a flowering tulip. The latter two objects symbolize her piety, and transience. She and her husband had a successful silk cloth business, which Magdalena continued to run after his death. The style of her portrait is the same as that of those of her son and daughter-in-law. After her death, they hung the portrait along with theirs.
