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Portrait of Roelof Meulenaer
Also titled Portret van Roelof Meulenaer
Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht, 1616–1680)
1650
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
Roelof Meulenaer, an Amsterdam postmaster, commissioned portraits of himself and his wife from Rembrandt’s pupil Ferdinand Bol around 1650. At this time, Bol was developing his own, more elegant style based on the work of the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, while continuing to avail himself of Rembrandt’s warm palette. Meulenaer’s portrait, thus, unites the best of these two exemplary models.
