id: 153603 accession number: 1987.136 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.136 updated: 2025-06-10 11:10:07.021000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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: --- culture: Flanders technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498–1574) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: note on cradle appears on a notation in chalk (originally) slightly scratched faintly letters " Mr A.M.C [?] or K [?] Reyve" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. 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 Forget Me Not. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (September 30, 2021-January 16, 2022). title: Maarten Van Heemskerck (1498-1574) opening date: 2024-09-28T04:00:00 Maarten Van Heemskerck (1498-1574). Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Netherlands (organizer) (September 28, 2024-January 19, 2025) https://stedelijkmuseumalkmaar.nl/nu-te-zien/verwacht/maarten-van-heemskerck. --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1987- footnotes: citations: (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, and Bruno Meissner, Zurich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1987 footnotes: citations: (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: Private collection, Tournai (?), Belgium date: Possibly until 1987 footnotes: *
The museum's files indicate this painting was owned by a private collector in Tournai whose identity remains unknown.
citations: Dirick [1512-1578] and Machtelt van Teijlingen [d. after 1581], Alkmaar, Holland date: c. 1540/1545-after 1581 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, letter to Evan Turner, July 1, 1987, in CMA curatorial page number: url: Evan Turner, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, April 7, 1987, in CMA curatorial file page number: url: Hôtel Drouot. Objets d'art et de très bel ameublement principalement du XVIIIe siècle; dessins et tableaux anciens. March 17, 1987. page number: url: “The Year in Review,” The Cleveland Museum of Art News & Calendar, 1988. page number: url: Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, letter to Evan Turner, July 1, 1987, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Evan Turner, letter to Ann Lurie, April 7, 1987, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “Heemskerck’s Portrait of Machtelt Suijs at The Cleveland Museum of Art,” The Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1076 (Nov., 1992): 698-706. page number: url: Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71. page number: Reproduced: p. 40; Mentioned: p. 65, no. 21 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160017 Dudok van Heel, S. A. C. "Andries Willemsz. van Oudshoorn en Alkmaarse opdrachten aan Maarten van Heemskerck." In Face book: studies on Dutch and Flemish portraiture of the 16th-18th centuries. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2012. pp. 45-54. page number: Reproduced: P. 51, fig. 8 url: Perkinson, Stephen, and Naomi Speakman. The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Ar,t 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 18, fig. 3; Mentioned: p. 265 url: Veldman, Ilja M., Martin van Heemskerk, Mireille te Marvelde, Jessica Roeders, Frans Halsmuseum, Teylers Museum, and Alkmaar (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum. Maarten van Heemskerck 1498-1574. Haarlem, Haarlem, Alkmaar, Zwolle: Frans Hals Museum ; Teylers Museum ; Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar ; Wbooks, 2024. page number: Reproduced: p. 140, 6.23, and p. 279, no. 37; Mentioned: p. 141 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.136/1987.136_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.136/1987.136_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.136/1987.136_full.tif