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Portrait of Maritge Claesdr Vooght
Also titled Portret van Maritge Claesdr Vooght
Frans Hals (Antwerp, ca. –1666)
1639
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 148 cm x width 115 cm x thickness 7.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
Maritge Vooght grew up in a Haarlem family business of brewers. She married Pieter Olycan at the age of 18. Their union allowed him to hold high positions and he became co-heir to the brewery. In addition, they established a brewery of their own, which as was usual then, was registered under Pieter’s name. Their daughter Geertruyt successfully carried on the family business. That they were prosperous is evidenced by Vooght’s expensive clothing and precious church book.
