Bartholomeus van der Helst, Maria Stuart als weduwe van Willem II
Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamView original →
Bartholomeus van der Helst

Maria Stuart als weduwe van Willem II

1652

Current Collection

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Medium
canvas
Dimensions
199.5 × 170 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-107190

Princess of Orange Mary Stuart I is dressed in white, the traditional colour of mourning for a noble. Her husband, Stadholder William II, had died two years earlier. Mary was keen to secure the succession of her very young son. This portrait alludes to that claim to stadtholdership: she holds an orange, symbolizing the House of Orange. At the left is depicted the Stadtholders’ Gate of the Binnenhof (Inner Court) in The Hague.

Registry history

  • 1652 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum

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