Jan de Bray

Dutch, c. 1627 - 1688

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Shown from the shoulders up, a man and woman face our left in profile against a shadowy, dark green curtain in this vertical portrait painting. They both look steadily to our left, they and have pale skin and wear black. The man is closer to us so he overlaps the woman, whose profile is shifted to our left. A black cap sits on the man's curly, silver, shoulder-length hair. He has a slight double chin and soft jowls. A thin mustache curves over his upper lip, and a line of hair runs down his chin as a narrow beard. A broad, flat, white collar lies across his shoulders over a velvety black coat. He lifts his left hand, closer to us, in front of his chest with the fingers curled gently inward. The woman also has a double chin and soft jowls. Her thin lips are closed and downturned. Her hair is pulled back under a black covering, and her black garment has a sheen, suggesting satin.
Jan de Bray, Portrait of the Artist's Parents, Salomon de Bray and Anna Westerbaen, 1664, oil on panel, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle in memory of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Feder, 2001.86.1

Portrait of the Artist's Parents, Salomon de Bray and Anna Westerbaen

Jan de Bray · 1664 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2001.86.1

The head and shoulders of a young, pale-skinned boy fill this oval portrait painting. His shoulders are angled to our right, but he turns his face to look at us out of the corners of his large, dark blue eyes. His round cheeks and nose are slightly flushed, and his full, pink lips are closed over a cleft chin. His wavy brown hair falls to his shoulders and around his high, lace-edged collar. The boy’s brown doublet has small buttons down the front, which falls open over a linen shirt. His sleeves are also slit almost up to the shoulders to reveal linen there, too. Light from high to our left falls across the boy’s face and casts the ocean-green background into shadow.
Jan de Bray, Head of a Young Boy, c. 1650, oil on copper, Gift of Maida and George Abrams, 1995.74.1

Head of a Young Boy

Jan de Bray · c. 1650 · oil on copper ·  Accession ID  1995.74.1

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Woman Reading

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Christian Josi · published 1821 · chalk manner and roulette printed from two plates in red and black inks ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.44

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Directors of the Orphan Asylum of Haarlem

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder, Christian Josi · 1777, published 1821 · etching and roulette with burnishing printed in black ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.45

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder, Directors of the Orphan Asylum of Haarlem, 1777, published 1786, etching and roulette with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper, Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr., 1977.67.9

Directors of the Orphan Asylum of Haarlem

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder · 1777, published 1786 · etching and roulette with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1977.67.9

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-brown ink on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7013

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7013

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7008

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7008

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed in black ink on wove paper (proof), Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7007

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed in black ink on wove paper (proof) ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7007

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7012

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7012

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein, Young Girl at the Keyboard, 1767, chalk manner with roulette and burnishing printed in red ink on wove paper (proof), Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7010

Young Girl at the Keyboard

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Johannes Kornlein · 1767 · chalk manner with roulette and burnishing printed in red ink on wove paper (proof) ·  Accession ID  1943.3.7010

Bibliography

1937

  • Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang von. "Jan de Bray." Haarlem Jaarboek (1937): 33-59.

2008

  • Biesboer, Pieter, ed. Painting Family: the De Brays: Master Painters of 17th Century Holland. Exh. cat. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Zwolle, 2008: 17-26.