The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1599

Identification

Title(s)

The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies
The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies, 19 July 1599

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-2858

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, lower left: ‘H Vroom F P Harlem 1599’
inscription, on one of the ships: ‘mavryse’ (Mauritius)
inscription, on the frame, in gold: ‘Den eersten Mey anno 1598 / Mauritius, Hollant, Overijssel en Vrieslant / Vier schepen syn geseylt om specery te halen / naar Bantam, hebben oock den handel daer geplant en quamen rijcklijc weer voor d'Amsterdamsche palen / Den negentienden Iuly anno 1599.’ (On the first of May in the year 1598, the Mauritius, Hollant, Overijssel and Vrieslant, sailed to Bantam to collect spices, established trade there, and returned richly laden to the Amsterdam pilings on the nineteenth of July in the year 1599.)

Description

De terugkomst in Amsterdam van de tweede expeditie naar Oost-Indië, de zgn. Tweede Schipvaart, onder leiding van Jacobus van Neck, op 19 juli 1599. De vier grote schepen Mauritius, Hollant, Overijssel en Vrieslant op het IJ omringd door tal van kleine scheepjes en volgeladen roeiboten. Rechts in de verte het profiel van Amsterdam.

Creation

Artist

painter: Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (signed by artist)

Dating

1599

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 102.3 cm × width 218.4 cm
sight size: height 99.5 cm × width 216 cm
frame: height 129 cm × width 247 cm × depth 12 cm

Subject

What

When

1599-07-19 - 1599-07-19

Where

Who

Jacob Cornelisz Banjaert

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Apr-1921

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; collection Kneppelhout, Oosterbeek;{Note RMA.} from Johanna Maria Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg (1851-1923), The Hague, fl. 5,000, to the museum, 1921; on loan to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum since 1975

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hollanders van de Gouden Eeuw, p. 74, afb. 60
De Gouden Eeuw : proeftuin van onze wereld, p. 117, afb. 6
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch art : masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, Reinier J. Baarsen, Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, Lynn Federle Orr, Thomas Padon, Ruud Priem, Marijn Schapelhouman, J.P. Sigmond, afb. p. 12
De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 255
Het aanzien van Amsterdam : panorama's, plattegronden en profielen uit de Gouden Eeuw, p. 129, afb., cat.nr. 15
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 423, 424
Dawn of the Golden Age : northern Netherlandish art 1580-1620 [ : 1 1993a], Ger C.M. Luijten, , , , Marijn Schapelhouman
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 91
Wonen in de wijde wereld, p. 16-21, cat.nr. 2
Het stadsklavecimbel van Amsterdam, afb. 2, 10 (detail)
Asia in Amsterdam : the culture of luxury in the Golden Age, cat.nr. 1
Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

Persistent URL

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