id:			153603
accession number:	1987.136
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.136
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:00.580000

Portrait of Machtelt Suijs, c. 1540–45. Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498–1574). Oil on wood; framed: 107 x 97 x 8 cm (42 1/8 x 38 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 85 x 74 cm (33 7/16 x 29 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1987.136

title:				Portrait of Machtelt Suijs
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creation date:			c. 1540–45
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1545
current location:		118 Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Flanders
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Flemish
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498–1574)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 107 x 97 x 8 cm (42 1/8 x 38 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 85 x 74 cm (33 7/16 x 29 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	note on cradle appears on a notation in chalk (originally) slightly scratched faintly letters " Mr A.M.C [?] or K [?] Reyve"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

	title:		Gallery One 2012
	opening date:   2012-12-12T05:00:00
	<i>Gallery One 2012</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).

	title:		Forget Me Not
	opening date:   2021-09-30T04:00:00
	<i>Forget Me Not</i>. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (September 30, 2021-January 16, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," Bull. 75 (Feb. 1988), p. 65, no. 21, color repr. p. 40.', 'opening_date': '1988-02-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 1987-
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	(Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, and Bruno Meissner, Zurich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1987
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	(Nouveau Drouot, Paris, sale, March 17, 1987, no. 147, sold to Thomas Agnew and Bruno Meissner)
	date: 1987
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			* <div><!--block-->The painting was in private hands until it appeared in this auction, before which it was unknown.&nbsp; The painting is listed in the catalogue section containing works consigned by “divers amateurs.”</div>
			
			
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	Private collection, Tournai (?), Belgium
	date: Possibly until 1987
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			* <div><!--block-->The museum's files indicate this painting was owned by a private collector in Tournai whose identity remains unknown.</div>
			
			
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	Dirick [1512-1578] and Machtelt van Teijlingen [d. after 1581], Alkmaar, Holland
	date: c. 1540/1545-after 1581
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, letter to Evan Turner, July 1, 1987, in CMA curatorial
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	Evan Turner, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, April 7, 1987, in CMA curatorial file
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	Hôtel Drouot. <em>Objets d'art et de très bel ameublement principalement du XVIIIe siècle; dessins et tableaux anciens</em>.  March 17, 1987.
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	“The Year in Review,” <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art News &amp; Calendar</em>, 1988.
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	Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, letter to Evan Turner, July 1, 1987, in CMA curatorial file.
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	Evan Turner, letter to Ann Lurie, April 7, 1987, in CMA curatorial file.
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	Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler.  “Heemskerck’s Portrait of Machtelt Suijs at The Cleveland Museum of Art,” T<em>he Burlington Magazine </em>134, no. 1076 (Nov., 1992): 698-706.
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	Dudok van Heel, S. A. C. "Andries Willemsz. van Oudshoorn en Alkmaarse opdrachten aan Maarten van Heemskerck." In <em>Face book: studies on Dutch and Flemish portraiture of the 16th-18th centuries. </em>Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2012. pp. 45-54.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 51, fig. 8
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	Perkinson, Stephen, and Naomi Speakman. <em>The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe. </em>Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Ar,t 2017.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 18, fig. 3;  Mentioned: p. 265
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