Party in the Rijksmuseum. In a place of honor next to the Night Watch can now Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit be admired. Rembrandt painted the two in 1634. Nearly 400 years were the wedding portraits privately, but earlier this year the Netherlands and France bought the two works jointly for 160 million euros.
Millions of which the paintings are well worth, proposes Taco Dibbits, Director of Rijksmuseum Collections and from next month head director of the museum.
Why are these paintings so special?
This is the only pair that Rembrandt portrayed with feet out. Life-size, single and lifelike. When Rembrandt painted this work, he was 28 years old and he painted portraits only three years. It is incredible to see what he already had. If you are one of the portraits, it looks like you face to face with someone from the seventeenth century.
You see ambition. A young couple in love, the world is at their feet. And so did Rembrandt. A young painter who shows what he can do. A prelude to his greatest work:. The Nightwatch, he painted eight years later
What to watch an art looked like when he stands before these portraits
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It is incredible how Rembrandt details shows. Especially substances he could show well. Be sure to look at the rosettes on the shoes of Marten. Or are wrinkled socks, so precise. And of course, look at the faces of this set and watch the emotions.
When you first saw the portraits of Marten and Oopjen?
Last year spring. In the bedroom of Baron de Rothschild in Paris. I was overwhelmed. These two people splashing the canvas. I thought this should not depend on someone in a bedroom. These paintings are of national importance and heard in the Rijksmuseum.
The portraits were partly purchased by France and now hang alternately in the Louvre and Rijksmuseum. Where do you see them the most?
Of course in the Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum, the Night Watch and the largest collection of Rembrandt in the world, from landscapes to still lifes and portraits. Wedding portraits of Marten and Oopjen of a young Rembrandt can be seen in the Rijksmuseum in that context. You can see the development of Rembrandt as an artist. In the Louvre hang the portraits between major international works. A kind of championship. They hold their own among other great works, and it is also nice to see, hear
Finally. France bought Oopjen, Netherlands bought Marten. Who is your favorite?
Oopjen and Marten are happily married. You have these two only see as a married couple. They belong together. The portraits must therefore always hang close to one another. When you see Tom bravado, he is outgoing. Oopjen introverted. But the quality of the pictures is the same. I have no favorite and am very happy with Marten.
Free
To celebrate the arrival of Tom and Oopjen and because the paintings’ by anyone, “the Rijksmuseum is Saturday all day free of charge from 09:00 to 21:00.
Who are they?
Bright and confident in the future Marten and Oopjen depicted by Rembrandt. Wedding portrait dressed couple, both from a wealthy family, made a year after their wedding. Marten then applies his legal studies and as wealthy heir as a promising man. Oopjen is the portrait most likely pregnant with her first child, Henry, who was born late July 1634. A pretty hopeful future, but it is different. Their son Henry dies before he is a year old. Marten and Oopjen then have a son and a daughter, but their daughter does not survive her childhood. The promising career of Marten little has. At the age of 28 he died suddenly. The cause of his death is unknown. Oopjen remarried Maerten Daey, but the question is whether it was well planned, or that this was because of her pregnancy. Six months after the marriage she namely birth to a son, indicating that the relationship before marriage began. Oopjen eventually dies at the age of 78.
Where and when to see?
When it became known that the French family, the Rothschild wanted to sell the portraits of Marten and Oopjen went both France and the Netherlands for both paintings. France finally laid down 80 million for Oopjen and the Netherlands paid the same amount for Marten. The paintings must always stay together, as agreed. From March to mid-June hanging the works in the Louvre. The next three months they hang in the Rijksmuseum. The following restoration. Then the two portraits hanging back three months at the National Museum and then three months in the Louvre. Then they can see five years in the Rijksmuseum and five years in the Louvre. Then they move every eight years.
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