Threatened Swan; later conceived as an allegory of Johan de Witt, c. 1650
canvas, oil paint, 144 x 171 cm
- Current attribution
- Date
c. 1650
website Rijksmuseum (24/3/2025)
- Title
- Threatened Swan; later conceived as an allegory of Johan de Witt
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Iconclass
symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa)- Iconclass code van Rijksmuseum
- Object
- Support/medium
- Shape/sizes
- 144 x 171 cm
- Collection(s)
- Nationale Konst-gallerij
first purchase of the National Art-Gallery for 100 guilders
from 1800 - Koninklijk Museum/Rijks Museum in het Trippenhuis
NB: valued at fl. 1,000 in Cat. 1853
1808 - 1885 - Rijksmuseum , inv./cat.nr. SK-A-4
from 1885
- Nationale Konst-gallerij
- Auction(s)
- veilinghuis onbekend , Auction at veilinghuis onbekend, Amsterdam (city) (1800-06-11), 1800-06-11, lot number: 2, 100 HFL
- Exhibitions
- The age of Rembrandt : Dutch paintings and drawings of the 17th century, National Museum of Western Art [Tokyo] , 1968-10-19 - 1968-12-22, no. 1, ill.
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Amsterdam 1858, Dubourcq 1858, p. 1, no. 2, Jan Asselijn (1610-1660; …), Toespeling op de waakzaamheid van den Raadpensionaris Joan de Witt; Verkooping J. Gildemeester, 1800, te Amsterdam, fl. 95
- Moes/Van Biema 1909, p. 29-30 (purchase for fl. 95, with costs fl. 100), 33, 37 (in C.S. Roos’ description of the National Art Gallery, in the Second Room of the National Art Gallery), 40 (Cat. Waldorp 1801, no. 30), 48 (Cat. Roos 1801, no. 27), 71 (Inv. Waldorp 1804, no. 119); 101 (Inv. Meerman 1808, no. 115), 107 (Inv. 1808 no. 138), 115 (on 30 July 1808 received by Smissaert in the Royal Museum, Amsterdam, no. 21), 156 (Cat. 1809, no. 2), 175 (Appendix V), 225
p. 175 (Appendix V): they were the first to realize that the inscriptions were later added: Asselijn (who died in 1652) could not have known that De Witt would become raadpensionaris in 1653. - Steland-Stief 1971, p. 97-98, cat. no. 244
- Van Thiel et al. 1976, p. 89, A 4
- Van Thiel 1981, p. 188, no. 34
- Grijzenhout 1984, p. 19, fig. 16, p. 54, no. 1
- Bergvelt 1998, p. 37 (in the exhibition of national history), 39 (moved to the animal paintings), 41, 42, 47 (fig. 10), 50, 109, 239 (in the Gallery of Honor), 270, 278 (fig. I), 296 (note 63), 316 (note 149: a landscape by Asselijn should be purchased for the Rijksmuseum), 353 (note 269), 393 (*1800-1)
- Other literature
- Aanwijzing der schilderijen, berustende op het Rijks Museum, te Amsterdam, 1853, p. 3, no. 1, Asselyn (Jan; 1610-1660), Eene Zwaan met uitgespreide vlerken; eene zinspeling op de waakzaamheid van den Raadpensionaris Joan de Witt
- R. Zanderink, De zwaan als vliegende Hollander, Origine 14/3 (2006), p. 30 e.v.
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