Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• sculpture • European art
*Work
Type [link]:
• statue • bust
*Title:
Bust of Jacob van Reygersberg
*Creator
Display: Rombout Verhulst (Flemish,
1624-1698)
*Role
[link]: sculptor [link]: Verhulst,
Rombout
*Creation
Date: 1671 [controlled]: •
Earliest: 1671 • Latest: 1671
*Subject
[links]: • portrait • Jacob
van Reygersberg (Dutch aristocrat, 1625-1675) •
commemoration
Culture [link]:
Dutch
*Current
Location [link]: J.
Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United
States) • ID:
78.DE.65
*Measurements:
63 cm (height) (24 7/8 inches)
[controlled]: • Value:
63 Unit: cm
Type: height
*Materials
and Techniques: marble with extensive
drillwork
Material [links]:
• marble Technique
[links]: • carving • drillwork
Inscriptions: inscribed
on the front: MEA SORTE CONTENTUS; signed on the
left: R. Verhulst fec.; dated on the right: Anno
1671; inscribed on the back: DIT IS HET AFBEELTSEL
VAN / IACOB VAN REIGERSBERGH. / GEBOREN IN MIDDELBURGH
/ DEN.X.APRIL.1625. / WEGENS DE PROVINTIE / VAN
ZEELANT GEDEPUTEERDT / TER VERGADERINGH VAN / HAER
HOOGH MOGENTHEDEN / DEN.17.7.BER DES IAERS 1663
/ STURF DEN.29.APRIL.1675
Description: The
virtuosity of the sculptor is apparent in the rendering
of a variety of textures, including flesh, hair,
lace, satins. Verhulst has employed an ingenious
method to mitigate the truncation of the figure
at the shoulders and chest, namely by using decorative
foliage and curving volutes below the armor. Jacob
van Reygersberg was a wealthy provincial politician
who had recently been sent to the States General,
the national governing body of the Netherlands,
to represent the Dutch province of Zeeland. His
armor identifies him as a member of the noble class.
Description Source
[link]: J. Paul Getty Museum online. www.getty.edu
Page: accessed
21 December 2006
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