The Digitalisation Project Castle Huis Bergh is the intellectual property of the Stichting Musick’s Monument. Ing Hans Meijer was responsible for the technical realisation; Dr Willem Kuiper for the scholarly input. Thanks are also due to the Anjer Cultuurfonds Gelderland; the Stichting de Verenigde Stichtingen “De Armenkorf” in Terborg and “Het Gasthuis te Silvolde”; Mrs P. Tijdink-Hermsen; Mrs L.J.C. Meijer-Kroonder; and the Giese family.
Two panels
German Master, ca 1520
Double portrait
The figures here portrayed, show a strong similarity - in attitude as well as in clothing - with the portrait of the Arnolfini’s by Jan van Eyck, now to be seen in the London National Gallery. They are both dressed in a fuclined coat. The woman is warring a hat in a style that was fashionable around 1500. In her right hand she keeps a collar with heavy beads, that at the time would be seen as an engagement present, given to her by her husband-to-be. The fashion of the time prescribed dresses with wide and deep pleats, thud giving the effect of ‘pregnancy’. She was most probably not already pregnant at this time! Some of the earlier process of painting is still visible, so that we can see how the artist changed both the position of the eyes as the position of the feet.
