Portrait Of Adam Wachendorff, With A Putto Blowing Bubbles, Cornelis Ketel, 1574 — Cornelis Ketel

Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles, Cornelis Ketel, 1574


Cornelis Ketel (1548 - 1616)

Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616): Dutch Mannerist painter known for Elizabethan portraits & pioneering Amsterdam civic group portraits. A bridge between artistic traditions.

Portrait of a man. On the other side a bubble-blowing putto. The man, probably Adam Wachendorff, was introduced to the hips, standing at a table. In the right hand a letter, the left hand in the side. On the table are paper, a pen, an ink jar and a watch. On the reverse a naked bubble-blowing putto in a landscape.