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Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Petrus Woortman 1771
oil on canvas
78.8 × 61.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1953
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Petrus Woortman
1771
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
78.8 × 61.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1953
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The pastellist, painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Perronneau was one of the most important portrait artists working in eighteenth-century France. He also travelled widely in search of patrons, working in Holland, Italy and Russia. In 1771–72 he was in Holland, where he painted this portrait of Petrus Woortman (1729–91), a Catholic priest at the Moses and Aaron Church in Amsterdam. He is shown wearing a stole embroidered with emblematic foliage and a fine openwork lace collar, and holding a Bible in his left hand. This painting was originally installed in the church; however, Woortman subsequently sold the original and replaced it with a copy.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint u.c.r.: Perronneau. / 1771.
Accession Number
3015-4
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
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