Portrait of Leendert van der Cooghen with a large hat

Portrait of Leendert van der Cooghen with a large hat
Cornelis Pietersz. Bega , approx. 1653/54
Black chalk on parchment
11.3 x 9.4 cm
The British Museum, London

The portrait of Leendert van der Cooghen with a large hat is a Cornelis Pietersz. Portrait of his Haarlem contemporary Leendert van der Cooghen (1632–1681) from approx. 1653/54, ascribed to Bega . The small-format parchment is 113 millimeters high and 94 millimeters wide and is in the inventory of the British Museum in London .

Image description

For a long time the drawing was mistaken for a portrait of Cornelis Bega and was attributed to either Leendert van der Cooghen (1632–1681) or Cornelis Visscher (1628 / 29–1658) from the Haarlem artist circle of Bega. According to Baukje Coenen, this assumption that it is a question of Bega's self-portrait can be ruled out, because the posture looking upwards would be atypical. Even if Visscher was a great master in drawing parchment, his style was much more detailed and plastic at the time and resulted in bright, clear images. The free style of the oval portrait is less schematic, it is a juxtaposition of even hatching patterns and flowing lines (such as the curly hair). The hatching, overlapping at different angles and giving a random impression, is a characteristic stylistic feature of Bega's drawings. The identity of the person depicted suggests van der Cooghen and not Bega, above all through the rather delicate rather than large nose.

Provenance

The first provenance recorded in writing goes back to the collection of the Feitama family in 1695. The portrait ended up in the van der Marck collection and was acquired by Johan Goll van Franckenstein at an auction and resold in 1833. In 1836 it found its way into the British Museum as part of the Sheepshanks Collection and cataloged there by Hind in 1926. The attributions and descriptions of the pictures changed many times over time.

literature

• Peter van den Brink and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann (editors): Cornelis Bega: Elegance and rough manners . Belser, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7630-2619-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baukje Coenen, in: Peter van den Brink and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann (editors): Cornelis Bega: Elegance and rough manners . Belser, Stuttgart 2012. p. 91
2. ↑ Baukje Coenen, in: Peter van den Brink and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann (editors): Cornelis Bega: Elegance and rough manners . Belser, Stuttgart 2012. p. 91