Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen

Jonson, Cornelis
Johnson, Cornelius

English, 1593 - 1661

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Shown from the waist up, a woman looks at us steadily from behind an oval opening in this vertical portrait, which is painted entirely in tones of sepia and golden brown. The woman’s shoulders and face are angled to our left, but she looks at us with large, dark eyes. She has a narrow face with a slightly bumped nose, high cheekbones, a dimple under her lower lip, and her mouth is closed. Her dark hair is pulled back, and curls fall to her shoulders. The bodice of her dress and the voluminous sleeves glint with highlights, suggesting satin or silk. A sheer cloth covering her chest may be lined with pearls, and bows are tied at her shoulders and over her breastbone. She holds one long-fingered hand up to touch the ribbon at her chest, and she wears a ring on that pinky. She holds a closed book by the spine with her other hand down by her waist. A curtain fills most of the background within the oval opening but is pulled aside to show a church tower to the left. The oval opening appears to be ornamented on our side with carved, chubby babies in the lower corners holding a blank banner, paint palette, brushes, maulstick, and books. At the upper corners are a drawing, drafting tools, globe, lute, and caduceus. The artist signed and dated the painting near the woman’s right elbow, to our left: “Cornelius Ionson Van Ceulen fecit 1657.”
Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen, Anna Maria van Schurman, 1657, oil on panel, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, 2002.35.1

Anna Maria van Schurman

Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen · 1657 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2002.35.1

Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, Clement de Jonghe, Anna Maria van Schurman, after 1657, engraving on laid paper, Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg, 2011.139.43

Anna Maria van Schurman

Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, Clement de Jonghe · after 1657 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2011.139.43

Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, Clement de Jonghe, Anna Maria van Schurman, after 1657, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2021.39.1

Anna Maria van Schurman

Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, Clement de Jonghe · after 1657 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2021.39.1

Bibliography

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 2:224-225.

1922

  • Finberg, A. J. "A chronological list of portraits by Cornelius Johnson, or Jonson." Walpole Society 10 (1922): 1-37.

1925

  • Sandrarts, Joachim von. Joachim von Sandrarts Academie der Bau-, Bild, -und Mahlerey-Künste von 1675. Leben der berühmten Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister. Edited by Alfred R. Peltzer. Abridged ed. Munich, 1925: 403.

1957

  • Millar, Oliver, and Margaret Whinney. English Art 1625-1714. The Oxford History of English Art 8. Oxford, 1957: 60, 64-67.

1972

  • Millar, Oliver. The Age of Charles I: Painting in England 1620-1649. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, 1972: 30, 34, 52, fig. 77.

1978

  • Edmond, M. "Limners and Picturemakers: New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait painters Working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Centuries." Walpole Society 47 (1978-1980): 60-242.

1994

  • Waterhouse, Ellis. Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790. Pelican History of Art. 5th ed. New Haven and London, 1994: 51, 60-62.

2003

  • Hearn, Karen. "The English Career of Cornelis Johnson." Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 13 (2003): 113-129.