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Portrait of Abraham de Potter, Amsterdam Silk Merchant
At first sight, this portrait appears fairly conventional. The sitter is dressed in sober black, and the stiff pleated ruff was no longer particularly fashionable in 1649. However, the background is unusual: Potter stands before a weathered plastered wall. Above his signature, Fabritius painted a small, deceptively real nail, which seems to stick out of the canvas.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Potter, Abraham de
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- Potter, Abraham de
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1649
- 1649
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.8410
- SK-A-1591
Extent
- height 68.5 cm
- width 57 cm
- depth 9.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1649
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:13:44.491Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:23.562Z