Frans Hals: Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606–1653)
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Artist |
Frans Hals
(1582/1583–1666) |
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Alternative names |
Frans Franchoisz Hals |
Description |
Dutch painter and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
1582 or 1583 date QS:P,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1583-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
26 August 1666 |
Location of birth/death |
Antwerp |
Haarlem |
Work period |
between circa 1603 and circa 1666 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1666-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
Work location |
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Authority file |
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creator QS:P170,Q167654 | |
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Title |
Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653) title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653) "
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653) "
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di Aletta Hanemans (1606–1653)"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt der Aletta Hanemans (1606–1653)"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653)"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653)" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
portrait |
Description |
Portrait of Aletta Hannemans, who married Jacob Pietersz Olycan in 1624 and Nicolaes van Loo in 1640. She is shown three-quarters-length, standing, turned three-quarters left, looking at the spectator. She wears a costly bridal stomacher called a "bruidsborst", worked with gold thread and showing various flowers. She wears it over a colorful purple and red skirt that is draped over a French fardegalijn, which supports the heavy gold chain wrapped around her gown and through her "vlieger". Her vlieger is edged with black velvet and shows off her stomacher and skirt. Her sleeves are attached via shoulder wings to her dress with small silver aglets. Around her neck she wears a starched linen figure-eight collar, and over her hair a diadem cap with lace edging. She holds a pair of embroidered bridal gloves and wears a wedding ring on her right forefinger. She also wears gold bracelets and lace wrist collars.
Both this painting and the pendant painting of her husband were restored in 2007. During restoration, technical analysis confirmed what had long been thought, that the poorly rendered coats of arms were later additions not by Frans Hals (the pigment Prussian blue was found, but this pigment was first synthesized in 1706). The decision was taken to over paint the arms. Water soluble paints were used so that the over painting may be easily removed at a later date should this be wanted. |
Depicted people |
Aletta Hannemans |
Date |
1625 |
Medium |
oil on canvas |
Dimensions |
height: 123.8 cm (48.7 in) ; width: 98.3 cm (38.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+123.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+98.3U174728 |
Collection |
Mauritshuis
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Native name |
Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis |
Location |
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Coordinates |
52° 04′ 49.4″ N, 4° 18′ 51.5″ E |
Established |
1822 |
Website |
mauritshuis.nl |
Authority file |
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institution QS:P195,Q221092 |
Current location |
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Accession number |
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Place of creation |
Haarlem |
Object history |
1625: commissioned by Jacob Olycan (1596–1638) and Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653), Haarlem
by 1877date QS:P,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : inherited by Van Sypesteyn family, Haarlem
16 May 1877: anonymous sale at Van Pappelendam en Schouten, Amsterdam (auction house),
by 1880date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Victor de Stuers (1843-1916), The Hague
1881: purchased by the Dutch State from Victor de Stuers, The Hague
from 1881date QS:P,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague |
Exhibition history |
Frans Hals, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1 October 1989–31 December 1989, ISBN 90-6179-097-2, cat. no. 19, p. 181-184.
Hollanders in beeld, 13 October 2007–13 January 2008, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, Cat.no. 17.
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Inscriptions |
Age of sitter and date top left:
ÆTAT SVÆ 19 / ANo 1625
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References |
AnonymousUnknown author, Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653), height: 123.8 cm (48.7 in); width: 98.3 cm (38.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,123.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,98.3U174728 .
AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 10860, as Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653), height: 124.2 cm (48.8 in); width: 98.2 cm (38.6 in)dimensions QS:P2048,124.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,98.2U174728
AnonymousUnknown author, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20186198, as Porträt von Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653), der Ehefrau von Jacob Pietersz. Olycan, height: 124.2 cm (48.8 in); width: 98.2 cm (38.6 in)dimensions QS:P2048,124.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,98.2U174728
AnonymousUnknown author ([circa 1900date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 ]) Mauritshuis. The Hague. Holland, 's-Gravenhage: De Groot & Dijkhoff, [p. 11], as Portrait of Aletta Hanemans, with image in black and white.
Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis (1910) A catalogue raisonne of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century. Based on the work of John Smith, volume 3, London: Macmillan & Co., p. 63−64 , cat. no. 208, as Aletta Hanemans, height: 48.5 in (123.1 cm); width: 38.5 in (97.7 cm)dimensions QS:P2048,48.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,38.5U218593 . |
Source/Photographer |
www.mauritshuis.nl : Home : Info : Pic |
Other versions |
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Version before restoration from www.wga.hu
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Version in black and white from mus.cat., c. 1900
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