Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the XIX District of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Cornelis Bicker and Lieutenant Frederick van Banchem, waiting to welcome Marie de Médicis, 1 September 1638
Also titled Officieren en andere schutters van wijk XIX in Amsterdam onder leiding van kapitein Cornelis Bicker en luitenant Frederick van Banchem, gereed voor de ontvangst van Maria de’ Medici, koningin-weduwe van Frankrijk, in september 1638
Joachim von Sandrart (I) (Frankfurt am Main, 1606–1688)
1640
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 343 cm x width 258 cm x height 363 cm x width 277 cm x thickness 10 cm x weight 100 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- 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
Joachim von Sandrart (1606 - 1688). The company of Captain Cornelis Bicker, waiting to welcome Maria de' Medici, the dowager queen of France, 1638. The men of Cornelis Bicker served as a guard of honour when Maria de' Medici visited Amsterdam in 1638. They made this proud achievement the theme of their group portrait. The riflemen are grouped around a marble bust of Maria de' Medici. The sheet of paper beneath the bust contains a poem devoted to this painting by the famous 17th-century Dutch poet Vondel. Painted for the Great Hall of the Kloveniersdoelen, Amsterdam. On loan from the city of Amsterdam, 1885.
