Abraham van Lennep

Wallerant Vaillant, artist

1623–1677

Caspar Netscher, artist

1639–1684

Abraham van Lennep, 1672–1677?

Where object was made: Netherlands

Material/technique: mezzotint

Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 393 x 348 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 15 1/2 x 13 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1968.0020

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Cabinets of Curiosity: Musing About Collections," Jun-2006, Joseph Keehn and Madeline Rislow
This portrait shows the collector Abraham van Lennep (1627-1678) surrounded by some of his prized possessions: an album of prints or drawings, an illuminated manuscript (probably fifteenth century), a plaster bust of the Roman philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE), and a drawing extending over the edge of the table. In the painting by Caspar Netscher (Paris, Stichting Custodia, Institut Néerlandais) it is possible to discern that the drawing is in red chalk and that its subject is the biblical story of Adam and Eve.