Portrait of Elisabeth Bas

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Portrait of an Old Lady, Possibly Elisabeth Bas
Portret van een oude dame, mogelijk Elisabeth Bas Rijksmuseum SK-A-714.jpeg
Artist Ferdinand Bol   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Year1640s
Mediumcanvas, oil paint
Dimensions118 cm (46 in) × 91.5 cm (36.0 in)
Location Rijksmuseum, Netherlands OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
OwnerJacobus Salomon Hendrik van de Poll  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Accession No.SK-A-714  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Identifiers RKDimages ID: 1882

Portrait of Elisabeth Bas is a portrait by Ferdinand Bol of the Dutch businesswoman Elisabeth Bas, commissioned by her granddaughter Maria Rey, from the 1640s. It is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, where it is known as Elisabeth Bas and attributed to Golden age of Dutch art painter Ferdinand Bol (1616 - 1680), though the identity of the sitter is held in doubt by the Rijksmuseum.

History and attribution

Until 1911 it was thought to be by Rembrandt, but that year the Rembrandt expert Abraham Bredius re-attributed it to Bol. Such a re-attribution was hotly contested by the collector and art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1836-1930), but is now accepted. A brand of cigars was named after this painting in the 20th century, produced at a factory at Boxtel and using the painting as a logo, and their bands and the boxes for cigars of this brand are still collectors' items. [1]

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References

  1. J. Bruyn, B. Haak, S.H. Levie, P.J.J. van Thiel, E. van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings: 1635–1642, 2013, p. 36