Jürgen Ovens

Illustration number 0000354346
Dimensions: 612x650 pixels
License undetermined

Illustration number 0000010474
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 118 x 102 cm

Current attribution: Jürgen Ovens

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.: 1658 (1657 - 1659)

late 1650s (Sumowski 1983)
Created in: Amsterdam (city)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Een moeder met vier kinderen als Caritas
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Maria Ovens met haar vier kinderen als Caritas
English title: A mother with four children as Caritas
Genre: portrait
Keywords: historiated portrait, family portrait, allegory, mother, child, drapery (clothing), in a landscape, column as background
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 61B(+2)
historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) (+ all kinds of 'portrait historié': mythological portrait, allegorical portrait, 'Rollenporträt', etc.)
11M33
Charity, 'Caritas'; 'Carità' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 94277

Maria Jens Martens ? - 1690-09-21

Name

Martens, Maria Jens

Sex

Date/place of death

Tönning 1690-09-21

Marriage(s)

Friedrichstadt (an der Eider) 1652
11714/Ovens, Jürgen

Notes

There is no proof or indication that the woman is Maria Ovens, the wife of the artist. Her facial features differ from those of Maria Ovens' sure portrait from c. 1652 (RKDimages no. 281183).

Artistically related

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

related to
Jürgen Ovens
Caritas in Szépművészeti Museum, Budapest (1657; RKDimages no. 289147); Caritas in Schloß Dyck, Jüchen (c. 1658; RKDimages no. 281275)

Provenance

Collection(s): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-A-1257
Gift of Jan Stanislaus Robbert van de Poll (1805-1888), Arnhem
1885-11 -

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 294 , as Allegory, mother with four children
Schmidt 1922 , p. 200-201, no. 315, p. 259, under no. 2, ill. 64 , as Mother sitting with four children in front of a tree trunk, taken as Caritas
Van Thiel et al. 1976 , p. 432-433, A 1257, ill.
Wright 1980 , p. 356
Sumowski 1983-1994 , vol. 3 (1983), p. 2227, no. 1498, p. 2253, ill.
Spielmann/Drees/Kuhl 1997 , J. Drees, 'Jürgen Ovens (1623-1678) als höfischer Maler. Beobachtungen zur Portrait- und Historienmalerei am Gottorfer Hof', vol. 1, p. 244-259, spec. p. 251-252, ill. on p. 251 , as Mother with four children, c. 1658 (?)
Riether 2019A , P. Larsen, ‘Jürgen Ovens. Der heilige Hieronymus als Büsser. 1660’ [falsely mentioned instead of ‘Jürgen Ovens. Meditierender Einsiedler in der Wildnis’ due to an editorial mistake], p. 70-73, 123-124, spec. p. 72, 123, note 16

F.D.O. Obreen et al., Wegwijzer door ’s Rijks Museum te Amsterdam, Schiedam 1887, p. 102, no. 1084, as Emblematic portrait piece of a mother with her children ('Zinnebeeldig portretstuk van eene moeder met hare kinderen')

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000354346)
, Original location BD/RKD/0614 - ONS/Portrait Historié (img.nr. 0000010474)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project
RemBench
Gerson Digital : Germany

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Creation date: 1996-08-19; Last modified date: 2023-04-03

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