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Summary

Jan de Baen: The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers

Artist



Alternative names	Jan de Baan
Description	Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death	20 February 1633	8 March 1702 (buried)
Location of birth/death	Haarlem	The Hague
Work period	between circa 1650 and circa 1702 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Amsterdam (1645-1648), The Hague (1660-1702)
Authority file	: Q759784 VIAF: 95822303 ISNI: 0000000069840914 ULAN: 500022895 WGA: b/baen DBNL: baen003

Title

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers

Object type

painting

Description

The mutilated corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hung on the stake on the Groene Zoodje in The Hague, 20 August 1682. Bottom right a man with a torch.

Depicted people

Date

between 1672 and 1675

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 69.5 cm (27.3 in)

; width: 56 cm (22 in)

Collection

Rijksmuseum

	Native name	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
	Location	Amsterdam
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E
	Established	1800
	Website	rijksmuseum.nl
	Authority file	: Q190804 VIAF: 159624082 ISNI: 0000000121961335 ULAN: 500246547 LCCN: n79007489 NLA: 36126463 WorldCat

Current location

hall 2.18

Accession number

SK-A-15

Place of creation

The Hague

Object history

1802: acquired by the Nationale Konst-gallerij, Huis ten Bosch, The Hague

1808: transferred to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Exhibition history

Denkbeeldig vaderland. Kunst en politiek in de Bataafs-Franse tijd 1795-1813, Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, 24 November 1995–11 February 1996, ISBN 9012082633, cat. no. 32.

Inscriptions

verso:

Dit sijn de lijcken van Jan ende Cornelis de Witt door een voornaem schilder naer het leeven afgeschildert soo als deselven des avonts ten elff ueren noch aenden wip hingen. Cornelis is die geene sonder pairuque. Jan de Witt met sijn eijgen hair. Dit is het eenichste principaal naer het leven gedaen den XX augusti MDCLXXII en daerom veel gelt waerdich.

[Transcriptie in modern Nederlands: Dit zijn de lijken van Jan en Cornelis de Witt door een vooraanstaand schilder naar het leven geschilderd, zoals zij 's avonds om elf uur nog aan de wip hingen. Cornelis is degene zonder pruik. Jan de Witt heeft zijn eigen haar. Dit is het enige schilderij naar het leven geschilderd op 20e augustus 1672 en daarom veel geld waard.]

Notes

Anonym (April 1977) Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant, vol. 3, no. 8.
AnonymousUnknown author (1998) ‘Vijanden en oorlogen’, 20 Eeuwen Nederland, 4, p. 93.
Haijer, J.E. (1967) 'De moord op de gebroeders De Wit', Spiegel Historiael, p. 417, with image on p. 424.

Ham, G. van der (juli-augustus 2007) ‘Heldenverering’, Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 7.

References

Catalogus der schilderijen, miniaturen, pastels, omlijste teekeningen, enz. in het Rijks-museum te Amsterdam (1909), 405
Catalogus der schilderijen, oudheden enz. op het Koninklijk Museum te Amsterdam 1809, 4
Aanwijzing der schilderijen, berustende op 's Rijks Museum, te Amsterdam (1830), 7
Aanwijzing der schilderijen op 's Rijks Museum te Amsterdam (1839), 7
All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a Completely Illustrated Catalogue (1976), A15
Beschrijving der schilderijen op 's Rijks Museum te Amsterdam (1858), 10
Q123906956, 405
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-15
https://www.wga.hu/html/b/baen/corpses.html
RKDimages ID: 15381
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: awHlzNJDvnN1gg
20 Eeuwen Nederland en de Nederlanders
Q123906856
Q105077259, p. 33
Q116146233, pp. 20, ill. 17
Q123906928
Q123906942, pp. 58, 59−60, 218
Q123906947
Q123906964

Source/Photographer

www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:07, 11 November 2019	4,762 × 5,974 (4.6 MB)	Vincent Steenberg	latest version from www.rijksmuseum.nl
	08:36, 5 June 2016	4,762 × 5,974 (7.89 MB)	Vincent Steenberg	colors
	21:00, 7 July 2014	4,762 × 5,974 (4.66 MB)	Vincent Steenberg	metadata added
	19:43, 14 June 2014	4,762 × 5,974 (4.65 MB)	Vincent Steenberg	higher resolution
	18:56, 9 February 2007	3,110 × 3,889 (3.15 MB)	Jan Arkesteijn	{{Information \|Description=De lijken van de gebroeders De Witt, opgehangen op het Groene Zoodje aan de Vijverberg te Den Haag, 1672. (The corpses of the brothers de Witt) \|Source=Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. \|Date=17th century \|Author=Presumably Jan de Baen \|P