Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’
1655
- Medium
- canvas, paint
- Dimensions
- 82.5 × 68.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-108380
Legs wide apart and his right arm akimbo, Croeser sits on the stoop of his house on the Oude Delft canal in Delft. His thirteen-year-old daughter Catharina looks straight out at us. Jan Steen included a narrative element in this portrait: a poor woman and child beg for alms from the wealthy grain merchant. In 1657, just two years after this portrait was made, Croeser stood surety for Steen, who was seriously in debt.
Provenance
Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds, the Nationaal Aankoopfonds of the Ministerie van OCenW, the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the VSBfonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
Registry history
- 1655 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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