Eglon van der Neer

Illustration number 1001198670
Dimensions: 468x650 pixels
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Illustration number 1001155553
Dimensions: 2023x2903 pixels
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Illustration number 0001239789
Dimensions: 2325x3102 pixels
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Object information

Object category

painting

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

pendant (companion piece)

Adriaen van der Werff, Zelfportret van de kunstenaar met het dubbelportret van zijn vrouw Margaretha van Rees (1669-1732) en hun dochter Maria (1692-1731) (pendant (companion piece))

probably a pendant with the self portrait of Adriaen van der Werff, eventhough this painting is twenty centimeters smaller in height (Gaehtgens 1987, p. 274; Schavemaker 2010, p. 39)

Support/medium

canvas, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (portrait format) 105 x 73.5 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed and dated lower right: Eglon Hendric Van der Neer F. / 1696
marked on the back: Eglon Hendric Van der Neer

Current attribution: Eglon van der Neer

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1696 (1696)
Created in: Düsseldorf (city)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Zelfportret van Eglon van der Neer (1634-1703)
English title: Self portrait of Eglon van der Neer (1634-1703)
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: man's portrait, artist's portrait, bust-length portrait, head to the left, body facing right, facing front, allonge wig, chain (links), medal (coin type), knotted cravat, drapery (clothing), landscape painting (depicted), behind a balustrade, pulled-aside curtain/drapery
: the chain the artist is wearing was a gift from elector Johann Wilhelm of the Palatine, which he probably received during his visit to Düsseldorf at the end of 1695 or the beginning of 1696

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 29768

Eglon Hendrick van der Neer ? - 1703-05-03

Name

Neer, Eglon Hendrick van der

Initials

E.H.

Call sign

Eglon

Sex

Date/place of birth

Amsterdam (stad)

geboren in 1635 of 1636

Date/place of death

Düsseldorf (stad) 1703-05-03

Occupation

Kunstschilder en tekenaar, hofschilder van Karel II van Spanje in Brussel (1687-1689), en van keurvorst Johann Wilhelm in Dusseldorf (1690-1703)

Marriage(s)

Maria Wagensvelt
Marie Duchatel
Adriana Spieberg

Identification based on: achterschrift, prenten

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

contains artwork by
Eglon van der Neer, De engel wijst Hagar de bron in de wildernis (Genesis 21: 17-21)
Gaehtgens 1987, p. 174

Provenance

Commissioned by If the work in question was commissioned, and this is known, then the patron is noted here.: Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz

Collection(s)

private collection Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, Düsseldorf
1696 -
private collection Cosimo III de' Medici, Florence
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence , inv./cat.nr 1872
received as a gift from elector Johann Wilhelm of the Palatine; from the Guardaroba generale
1697 - brought to the Uffizi on 30 April 1697

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 270
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 5 (1912), p. 538, no. 120
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 181, 183, 248
Gaehtgens 1987 , p. 370, ill.
Casciu/Branca et al. 2006 , p. 206, no. 56, ill.
Schavemaker 2010 , p. 506-507, no. 132, ill. 132

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001198670)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001155553)
BD/RKD/1822 - IB/XVIID on Neer (img.nr. 0001239789)

Project: Gerson Digital : Germany

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Creation date: 2014-04-28; Last modified date: 2022-05-25

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