Abraham van Lennep, Caspar Netscher; Wallerant Vaillant

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Caspar Netscher; Wallerant Vaillant, Abraham van Lennep
Caspar Netscher; Wallerant Vaillant, Abraham van Lennep
Caspar Netscher
Abraham van Lennep
1672–1677?
Caspar Netscher
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.