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Portrait of Gerard Cornelis van Riebeeck
Also titled Portret van Gerard Cornelis van Riebeeck
Mattheus Verheyden (Breda, 1700–1777)
1755
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 206 cm x width 122 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkheer J.H.F.K. van Swinderen, Groningen
- 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 regent Gerard van Riebeeck oozes status. He is portrayed in front of Essesteijn, his country estate in Voorburg, where this painting along with the pendant of his wife Charlotte Strick van Linschoten (adjacent) hung as part of a portrait series that underscored the families’ prestige. Van Riebeeck wears a gold brocade waistcoat and matching cuffs. The abundance of buttons embellishing his attire, many of which serve no practical purpose, is striking.
