Artist: Cornelis Van Der Voort
Date: 1622
Size: 122 x 91 cm
Technique: Oil On Panel
These three-quarter length companion pieces from 1622 would have been painted for the marriage of Dirck Corver (see SK-A-4764) and Maria Overrijn van Schoterbosch (shown here). Corver was a merchant on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht and a governor of the St Jorishof. On 9 July 1621 he married Maria van Schoterbosch, who was 12 or 13 years his junior. Corver is standing by a table covered with a Persian rug on which he is resting one hand, while the other is on his hip. His wife holds a fan in her right hand. Care was lavished on the depiction of their clothing and accessories. The sitters’ identities were unknown when the two paintings entered the museum.1 They were identified by the Iconografisch Bureau on the basis of the provenance of the paintings and the sitters’ ages.2 The two portraits are closely related to those of Dirck Hasselaer (SK-A-1242) and Brechtje van Schoterbosch (SK-A-1243) painted eight years previously, which are also in the Rijksmuseum. The portraits of Brechtje and Maria, who were sisters, are remarkably similar. Distinctive features are the pose, the soft brushwork and the pale, matte flesh tones. The style and quality of these portraits warrants Six’s traditional attribution to the Amsterdam portrait painter Cornelis van der Voort. Gerdien Wuestman, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 323.
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