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Johannes Wtenbogaert
Jacob Adriaensz Backer (Harlingen, 1608–1651)
1638
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 122.5 cm x width 98 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Remonstrants Gereformeerde Gemeente, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
During his long life – he died in 1644 at the age of 87 – Wtenbogaert wrote pamphlets, religious treatises, and, of course, numerous sermons. Backer depicted him in 1638 with his 1619 discourse on ‘the Lord’s Prayer’ on the table. This treatise on one of the best-known prayers, published in the year in which the Remonstrants were under pressure, is a public manifestation of his profound faith.
