Art Ownership in Leiden in the Seventeenth Century

This article originally appeared as “Kunstbezit in Leiden in de 17de eeuw” in Th. H. Lunsingh-Scheurleer et al., Het Rapenburg: Geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht, vol. 5b, (Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1990), 3–36. The larger publication comprises eleven volumes on the architecture, interior decoration, residents’ histories, and contents of the houses in this section of the Rapenburg, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Fock’s chapter centers on art owned by collectors and others living on Leiden’s famous canal—their professions, social status, the kinds of art that they had in their possession, and the positioning of those works within their households. Works have been identified with the aid of auction catalogues and public notarial inventories.

DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2021.13.1.4

Appendix

Appendix 1: Classification of Subjects

A01     portraits

A02     family portraits

A03     identified individuals (other than family portraits)

A04      tronies (described as such)

A05     persons (described as such)

B01     religious representations

B02     Old Testament/Apocryphals

B03     New Testament

B04     parables

B05     representations of Christ (not New Testament)

B06     representations of Mary (not New Testament)

B07     disciples and evangelists

B08     saints

B09     hermits?/ monks

B10     religious allegories

C01     representations of themes from classical and post-classical literature

C02     classical mythology

C03     classical history and legend

C04     post-classical literature (fiction and legend)

D01     representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historic events

E01      pastoral representations (without reference to a literary source)

F01      nudes (without specification)

G01     profane allegories

G02     senses

H01     figure pieces with social life / genre figure pieces

H02     figure pieces with specification of figures and/or activities/surroundings (except for the following categories)

H03     peasant scenes (named as such)

H04     companies/brothels/taverns/ waiting rooms for soldiers (named as such)

H05     scenes of magic/witchcraft

J01      battle scenes/robberies/hunting scenes

K01     landscapes

K02     landscapes, specified (except following categories)

K03     landscapes with genre-like staffage

K04     landscapes featuring animals

K05     seasons

K06     evening/night landscapes

K07     fires

K08     landscapes from abroad (if explicitly specified)

K09     water/seascapes/ships/beaches

L01      representations of living animals (if not explicitly set in a landscape)

M01    kitchen pieces

N01     still lifes

N02     fruit pieces

N03     flower pieces

N04  monochrome still lifes with food

N05     animal pieces (dead animals)

N06     vanitas (named as such)

P01      architectural/city views

P02      perspectives (named as such)

P03      identified buildings

Acknowledgements

The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art wishes to thank Anne Baudouin for her skillful translation of this essay and Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert for valuable additional editorial help and advice.

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C. Willemijn Fock, Anne Baudouin (translator), "Art Ownership in Leiden in the Seventeenth Century," Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 13:1 (Winter 2021) DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2021.13.1.4