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Jan MijtensPortrait of Albertine Agnes of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Nassau-Diez, as DianaOil on
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Jan Mijtens
Portrait der Prinzessin Albertine Agnes von Oranien-Nassau, Fürstin von Nassau-Diez a
Öl auf Leinwand (doubliert). 103,5 x 88 cm.
Provenienz
Privatsammlung, London.
Literatur
Alexandra Nina Bauer: Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670). Leben und Werk, Petersberg, 2006, S. 380, Abb. A 54.
Albertine Agnes wurde 1634 in Den Haag als Tochter des Prinzen Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien (1584-1647), des Statthalters von Holland, Seeland, Utrecht, Geldern und Overijssel, und dessen Gemahlin Amalie Gräfin von Solms-Braunfels geboren. 1652 heiratete sie ihren über zwanzig Jahre älteren Cousin Graf Wilhelm Friedrich von Nassau-Diez, den Statthalter der nördlichen Provinzen Friesland, Drenthe und Groningen. Die Linie Nassau-Diez gewann durch sie den Anspruch auf das Erbe des älteren Hauses Oranien und ihr Enkel Johann Wilhelm Friso wurde dann auch nach dem kinderlosen Tod Wilhelms III. 1702 der Begründer des jüngeren Hauses Oranien, dem auch die heutige niederländische Königsfamilie entstammt.
Zusammen mit ihren drei Schwestern Luise Henriette, Kurfürstin von Brandenburg, Henriette Katharina, Fürstin von Anhalt-Dessau, und Maria, Pfalzgräfin von Simmern, dürfte Albertine Agnes zu den meist portraitierten Frauen ihrer Zeit gehört haben. Unter den Künstlern, die Bildnisse von ihr anfertigten, finden sich Gerard van Honthorst, Caspar Netscher, Abraham van den Tempel und insbesondere Jan Mijtens, dem sie bei ihrem Tod noch eine beträchtliche Geldsumme für diverse Bildaufträge schuldete. Von Jan Mijtens stammt auch die berühmteste Darstellung der Albertine Agnes, das Gruppenportrait der „Vier oranischen Prinzessinnen“, das anlässlich der Hochzeit der jüngsten Prinzessin 1666 in Kleve entstand und die vier Schwestern in einer Landschaft unterhalb der Schwanenburg wiedergibt (heute als Leihgabe der Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau in Schloss Mosigkau).
Das vorliegende Portrait, ebenso von Jan Mijtens geschaffen, dem führenden Bildnismaler Den Haags in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, zeigt die junge Fürstin von Nassau-Diez dagegen alleine in Dreiviertelfigur. Sie trägt ein gelbes Seidenkostüm mit einem transparenten Schal und reichen Perlenschmuck. Attribute der Jagd, wie ein Speer und die beiden Windhunde weisen die Darstellung als „Portrait historié“ aus. Diese Sonderform des Portraits, bei der die Dargestellten durch Attribute und Kostüme in den Kontext einer zumeist mythologischen, seltener auch biblischen oder literarischen Historie gerückt wurden, erfreute sich im 17. Jahrhundert insbesondere in Frankreich und den nördlichen Niederlanden besonderer Beliebtheit und wurde auch von Mijtens häufig aufgegriffen. Albertine Agnes von Nassau-Diez wird auf unserem Portrait in Gestalt der Jagdgöttin Diana wiedergegeben. Neben den genannten Attributen weisen auch die „Pteryges“, eine regelmäßige Reihe von Stoffstreifen, die hier an der Taille ansetzend über den Rock fallen, auf den antikisierend-mythologischen Charakter der Wiedergabe hin.
Wir danken Frau Dr. Alexandra Nina Bauer für die Bestätigung der Eigenhändigkeit des Künstlers auf der Grundlage digitaler Fotografien.
Jan Mijtens
Portrait of Albertine Agnes of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Nassau-Diez, as Diana
Oil on canvas (relined). 103.5 x 88 cm.
Provenance
Private collection, London.
Literature
Alexandra Nina Bauer: Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670). Leben und Werk, Petersberg, 2006, p. 380, illus. A 54.
Albertine Agnes was born in The Hague in 1634 as the daughter of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange (1584-1647), governor of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel, and his wife Amalie Countess of Solms-Braunfels. In 1652 she married her cousin Count Wilhelm Friedrich of Nassau-Diez, the governor of the northern provinces of Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen, who was more than twenty years her senior. Through her, the Nassau-Diez line won the claim to the inheritance of the older House of Orange, and her grandson Johann Wilhelm Friso became the founder of the younger House of Orange, from which the present Dutch royal family also originates, even after Wilhelm III died childless in 1702.
Together with her three sisters Luise Henriette, Electoress of Brandenburg, Henriette Katharina, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, and Maria, Countess Palatine of Simmern, Albertine Agnes is probably one of the most portrayed women of her time. Among the artists who painted her were Gerard van Honthorst, Caspar Netscher, Abraham van den Tempel and especially Jan Mijtens, to whom she owed a considerable sum of money for various commissions upon her death. Jan Mijtens also created the most famous depiction of Albertine Agnes, the group portrait of the "Four Sisters of the House of Orange Nassau", which was painted on the occasion of the wedding of the youngest princess in Cleves in 1666 and depicts the four sisters in a landscape below the Schwanenburg (today on loan from the Anhalt Picture Gallery Dessau in Mosigkau Palace).
The present portrait was also painted by Jan Mijtens, the leading portraitist in The Hague in the mid-17th century. It shows the young Princess of Nassau-Diez alone in three-quarter length. She wears a yellow silk gown with a transparent scarf and fine pearl jewellery. Attributes of the hunt, such as a spear and two greyhounds, identify the representation as a "portrait historié". This special form of portrait allows the sitters to portray mythological or, less frequently, biblical or literary characters through the use of attributes and costumes. This style of portrait enjoyed particular popularity in the 17th century, especially in France and the northern Netherlands, and was also frequently taken up by Mijtens. Albertine Agnes von Nassau-Diez is here portrayed as Diana, goddess of the hunt. In addition to the attributes mentioned above, the "pteryges", a fringe of fabric strips that falls from the sitter's waist over her skirt, also indicate that this work is intended to represent a classical or mythological character.
We would like to thank Dr. Alexandra Nina Bauer for confirming this work's authenticity on the basis of digital photographs.
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Jan Mijtens
Portrait der Prinzessin Albertine Agnes von Oranien-Nassau, Fürstin von Nassau-Diez a
Öl auf Leinwand (doubliert). 103,5 x 88 cm.
Provenienz
Privatsammlung, London.
Literatur
Alexandra Nina Bauer: Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670). Leben und Werk, Petersberg, 2006, S. 380, Abb. A 54.
Albertine Agnes wurde 1634 in Den Haag als Tochter des Prinzen Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien (1584-1647), des Statthalters von Holland, Seeland, Utrecht, Geldern und Overijssel, und dessen Gemahlin Amalie Gräfin von Solms-Braunfels geboren. 1652 heiratete sie ihren über zwanzig Jahre älteren Cousin Graf Wilhelm Friedrich von Nassau-Diez, den Statthalter der nördlichen Provinzen Friesland, Drenthe und Groningen. Die Linie Nassau-Diez gewann durch sie den Anspruch auf das Erbe des älteren Hauses Oranien und ihr Enkel Johann Wilhelm Friso wurde dann auch nach dem kinderlosen Tod Wilhelms III. 1702 der Begründer des jüngeren Hauses Oranien, dem auch die heutige niederländische Königsfamilie entstammt.
Zusammen mit ihren drei Schwestern Luise Henriette, Kurfürstin von Brandenburg, Henriette Katharina, Fürstin von Anhalt-Dessau, und Maria, Pfalzgräfin von Simmern, dürfte Albertine Agnes zu den meist portraitierten Frauen ihrer Zeit gehört haben. Unter den Künstlern, die Bildnisse von ihr anfertigten, finden sich Gerard van Honthorst, Caspar Netscher, Abraham van den Tempel und insbesondere Jan Mijtens, dem sie bei ihrem Tod noch eine beträchtliche Geldsumme für diverse Bildaufträge schuldete. Von Jan Mijtens stammt auch die berühmteste Darstellung der Albertine Agnes, das Gruppenportrait der „Vier oranischen Prinzessinnen“, das anlässlich der Hochzeit der jüngsten Prinzessin 1666 in Kleve entstand und die vier Schwestern in einer Landschaft unterhalb der Schwanenburg wiedergibt (heute als Leihgabe der Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau in Schloss Mosigkau).
Das vorliegende Portrait, ebenso von Jan Mijtens geschaffen, dem führenden Bildnismaler Den Haags in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, zeigt die junge Fürstin von Nassau-Diez dagegen alleine in Dreiviertelfigur. Sie trägt ein gelbes Seidenkostüm mit einem transparenten Schal und reichen Perlenschmuck. Attribute der Jagd, wie ein Speer und die beiden Windhunde weisen die Darstellung als „Portrait historié“ aus. Diese Sonderform des Portraits, bei der die Dargestellten durch Attribute und Kostüme in den Kontext einer zumeist mythologischen, seltener auch biblischen oder literarischen Historie gerückt wurden, erfreute sich im 17. Jahrhundert insbesondere in Frankreich und den nördlichen Niederlanden besonderer Beliebtheit und wurde auch von Mijtens häufig aufgegriffen. Albertine Agnes von Nassau-Diez wird auf unserem Portrait in Gestalt der Jagdgöttin Diana wiedergegeben. Neben den genannten Attributen weisen auch die „Pteryges“, eine regelmäßige Reihe von Stoffstreifen, die hier an der Taille ansetzend über den Rock fallen, auf den antikisierend-mythologischen Charakter der Wiedergabe hin.
Wir danken Frau Dr. Alexandra Nina Bauer für die Bestätigung der Eigenhändigkeit des Künstlers auf der Grundlage digitaler Fotografien.
Jan Mijtens
Portrait of Albertine Agnes of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Nassau-Diez, as Diana
Oil on canvas (relined). 103.5 x 88 cm.
Provenance
Private collection, London.
Literature
Alexandra Nina Bauer: Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670). Leben und Werk, Petersberg, 2006, p. 380, illus. A 54.
Albertine Agnes was born in The Hague in 1634 as the daughter of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange (1584-1647), governor of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel, and his wife Amalie Countess of Solms-Braunfels. In 1652 she married her cousin Count Wilhelm Friedrich of Nassau-Diez, the governor of the northern provinces of Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen, who was more than twenty years her senior. Through her, the Nassau-Diez line won the claim to the inheritance of the older House of Orange, and her grandson Johann Wilhelm Friso became the founder of the younger House of Orange, from which the present Dutch royal family also originates, even after Wilhelm III died childless in 1702.
Together with her three sisters Luise Henriette, Electoress of Brandenburg, Henriette Katharina, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, and Maria, Countess Palatine of Simmern, Albertine Agnes is probably one of the most portrayed women of her time. Among the artists who painted her were Gerard van Honthorst, Caspar Netscher, Abraham van den Tempel and especially Jan Mijtens, to whom she owed a considerable sum of money for various commissions upon her death. Jan Mijtens also created the most famous depiction of Albertine Agnes, the group portrait of the "Four Sisters of the House of Orange Nassau", which was painted on the occasion of the wedding of the youngest princess in Cleves in 1666 and depicts the four sisters in a landscape below the Schwanenburg (today on loan from the Anhalt Picture Gallery Dessau in Mosigkau Palace).
The present portrait was also painted by Jan Mijtens, the leading portraitist in The Hague in the mid-17th century. It shows the young Princess of Nassau-Diez alone in three-quarter length. She wears a yellow silk gown with a transparent scarf and fine pearl jewellery. Attributes of the hunt, such as a spear and two greyhounds, identify the representation as a "portrait historié". This special form of portrait allows the sitters to portray mythological or, less frequently, biblical or literary characters through the use of attributes and costumes. This style of portrait enjoyed particular popularity in the 17th century, especially in France and the northern Netherlands, and was also frequently taken up by Mijtens. Albertine Agnes von Nassau-Diez is here portrayed as Diana, goddess of the hunt. In addition to the attributes mentioned above, the "pteryges", a fringe of fabric strips that falls from the sitter's waist over her skirt, also indicate that this work is intended to represent a classical or mythological character.
We would like to thank Dr. Alexandra Nina Bauer for confirming this work's authenticity on the basis of digital photographs.
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