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Portrait of Ernst Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz
Also titled Portret van Ernst Casimir I, graaf van Nassau-Dietz
Wybrand de Geest (Leeuwarden, ca. –na 1)
c. 1630 - c. 1635
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 9 cm (support incl. frame)
- 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
The stadholders of Friesland were not the descendants of William of Orange, but of his brother Jan. Ernst Casimir, Jan’s son, moreover, was also stadholder of Groningen and Drenthe. He is shown here in military regalia, with a buff jerkin, cuirass, boots with spurs, and a staff of office. The style of the clothing suggests that the portrait originated around 1630; it could have been painted after his violent death in 1632.
