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Portrait of the Collector Josephus Augustinus Brentano
Also titled Portret van de verzamelaar Josephus Augustinus Brentano
Adriaan de Lelie (Tilburg, 1755–1820)
1813
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from Stichting Brentano’s Steun des Ouderdoms
- 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
The art collector Brentano is here presenting his finest pieces. His hand rests on a 15th-century Italian painting by Giovanni Bellini. The wall behind him is covered with Dutch 17th-century masterpieces. The landscape at the lower left by Adriaen van de Velde was acquired by the Rijksmuseum as early as 1822. On the right we see De Lelie, the painter of the portrait, conversing with his patron Brentano and leafing through a book of artists’ biographies.
