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Portrait of Marten Soolmans
Also titled Portret van Marten Soolmans
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1634
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 207.5 cm x width 132 cm x depth 3.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Joint acquisition by the Dutch State and the French Republic, collection Rijksmuseum/collection Musée du Louvre
- 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
Marten and Oopjen are the only couple that Rembrandt painted life-size, standing, and at full-length. Marten’s father came to Amsterdam from Antwerp as a Protestant refugee. He made his fortune as the owner of a sugar refinery. Marten married Oopjen in 1633. He was 20 and a law student, ready for a career in politics. Sadly, he died a mere eight years later.
