Portrait of Hortensia del Prado (died 1627), Wife of Jean Fourmenois

Portrait of Hortensia del Prado (died 1627), Wife of Jean Fourmenois, painted by Geldorp Gortzius in 1596, was created as a likeness of the sitter and commissioned within the circle of Amsterdam portraiture. The work entered the collection of Jacob de Witte van Citters shortly after its execution and has remained in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, since its acquisition, where it is displayed as part of the Dutch Golden Age holdings.

The painting measures 96 cm in height and 71 cm in width, executed in oil on panel. Its provenance traces a direct chain from the artist’s studio to the sitter’s widowed husband, then to Jacob de Witte van Citters, and finally to the Rijksmuseum, which now holds it under its official collection.

The work was first recorded in an estate inventory following Hortensia’s death in 1627 and later appeared in a 19th-century catalog of Dutch portraiture before being acquired by the museum in 1885.

In 1598, Flemish painter Gortzius Geldorp created an oil portrait of Hortensia del Prado, who died in 1627 and was married to Jean Fourmenois. The work exemplifies northern Renaissance portraiture and is presently part of the Rijksmuseum’s collection.

Geldorp, a Flemish artist who spent much of his career in German courts, blended the detailed observation typical of the north with the compositional balance of the Italian Renaissance. This portrait reflects the cross‑cultural artistic exchanges of the period and the growing importance of individual representation among the mercantile elite.