id:			153603
accession number:	1987.136
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Portrait of Machtelt Suijs, c. 1540-1545. 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. 1540-1545
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1545
current location:		118 Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Flanders, 16th century
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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inscriptions:

	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:		Faces of Europe
	opening date:   2021-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Faces of Europe</i>. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (February 1-May 1, 2021).

	title:		Maarten Van Heemskerck (1498-1574)
	opening date:   2022-09-15T04:00:00
	<i>Maarten Van Heemskerck (1498-1574)</i>. Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Netherlands (organizer) (September 15, 2022-January 1, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," Bull. 75 (Feb. 1988), p. 65, no. 21, color repr. p. 40.

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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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	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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	(Nouveau Drouot, Paris, sale, March 17, 1987, no. 147, sold to Thomas Agnew and Bruno Meissner)
	date: 1987
	footnotes: 	
			
			* The painting was in private hands until it appeared in this auction, before which it was unknown. The painting is listed in the catalogue section containing works consigned by “divers amateurs.”
			
			
	citations: 	
			* 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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	Private collection, Tournai (?), Belgium
	date: Possibly until 1987
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			* The museum's files indicate this painting was owned by a private collector in Tournai whose identity remains unknown.
			
			
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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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	citations: 	
			* 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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wall description: 
Heemskerck lived in Rome for four years (1532-36) and was deeply affected by the city's art and antiquities. Here, the half-length, seated figure, the tense yet elegant hands, and even the grotesque classical mask reflect the impact of that experience, while the love of meticulously represented textures is traditionally associated with northern European art. Machtelt Suijs married Dirick van Teijlingen in 1535 and lived in Alkmaar (the Netherlands), where Heemskerck must have painted her. The coat-of-arms that hangs from the mask combines family emblems, indicating that her portrait must have been accompanied by one (now lost) of her husband.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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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