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Portrait of Aernout van Beeftingh, his Wife Jacoba Maria Boon and their Children
Also titled Portret van Aernout van Beeftingh, zijn echtgenote Jacoba Maria Boon en hun kinderen
Nicolaes Muys (Rotterdam, 1740–1808)
1797
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 107 cm x width 84.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from a private collector
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In this informal family portrait, a mother nurses her baby, a very advanced image for the time. The father studies a print in his collection, while the eldest son puts a portfolio with drawings or prints away in the collector’s cabinet. Van Beeftingh’s son Jozua plays with a whip and toy horse, while toddler Pieter, in his high chair, eats a biscuit. Should he fall, he will be protected by his padded head covering.
