5906 x 3685 px | 50 x 31,2 cm | 19,7 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
26 luglio 2012
Ubicazione:
The Netherlands Holland Amsterdam Herengracht 518
Altre informazioni:
In 1683, Albert Geelvinck purchased two vacant plots on Herengracht and subsequently another two adjacent ones on Keizersgracht. Along Herengracht he had a city palace constructed, with its coach house on Keizersgracht. In between the buildings lies a long-stretched garden. The wooden medallion with the Geelvinck Hinlopen crest still adorns the late-seventeenth-century plasterwork ceiling of the hallway. The structure of the house has hardly been damaged since its construction. Parts of the panelling that was added in 1750 to the Blue Room and the present-day Chinoiserie Room, as well as the marble Rococo mantelpiece, still determine the eighteenth-century appearance of the piano nobile. The neoclassical front room contains a fireplace mantel painting from 1762-’63, attributed to Johannes van Dreght.With the restoration of the piano nobile, the initiator of the museum has intended to underline the continuity of the house as a residence: the stratification of the elements from the different residents of the house has remained clearly visible. A wealthy matchIn 1680, Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693), son of Cornelis Geelvinck and Elisabeth Velecker, married the thirteen-year-younger Sara Hinlopen (1660-1749), daughter of the cloth merchant and art collector Jan Hinlopen. Both families belonged to the richest in the Netherlands during the Golden Age. Just like his father, Albert Geelvinck was a member the city council of Amsterdam. Up until his death, he was also the director of the Society of Suriname.
