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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Museum
Portrait of Machtelt Suijs
c. 1540–45
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Provenance
Public1987-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1987
(Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, and Bruno Meissner, Zurich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1987
(Nouveau Drouot, Paris, sale, March 17, 1987, no. 147, sold to Thomas Agnew and Bruno Meissner)
Possibly until 1987
Private collection, Tournai (?), Belgium
c. 1540/1545-after 1581
Dirick [1512-1578] and Machtelt van Teijlingen [d. after 1581], Alkmaar, Holland
Source provenance text
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, and Bruno Meissner, Zurich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (Nouveau Drouot, Paris, sale, March 17, 1987, no. 147, sold to Thomas Agnew and Bruno Meissner) Private collection, Tournai (?), Belgium Dirick [1512-1578] and Machtelt van Teijlingen [d. after 1581], Alkmaar, Holland
The Cleveland Museum of ArtConfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). Forget Me Not. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (September 30, 2021-January 16, 2022). 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. CMA, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," Bull. 75 (Feb. 1988), p. 65, no. 21, color repr. p. 40.
The Cleveland Museum of ArtConfidence 100%
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Sourced Overview Evidence
Maerten van 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.
The Cleveland Museum of ArtConfidence 100%
Evidence state
Observed sales: 0 · Comparable Sales: 0 · Provenance: 5 · Exhibitions: 4.
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