Trompe l’oeil and silver medal of Jan Wolfert van Brederode, lord of Vianen and Ameide, by Antonina Houbraken (1686-1736)

Framed early 18th century trompe l’oeil of silver medal commemorating Jan Wolfert van Brederode, lord of Vianen and Ameide
 
Pen and black ink with grey and yellow-brown wash, over black chalk, within black ink framing lines.
Signed at the lower right of the fictive sheet of paper: Antonina houbraken.
Inscribed, below medallion: Iohan Wolphert van Brederode / Ao 1655. overleden
 
By Antonina Houbraken
 
208 x 297 mm
 
Antonina Houbraken (1686 Dordrecht – 1736 Amsterdam) was a draughtswoman who is known for her many topographical drawings of Dutch sites. She also drew landscapes and is recorded as a skilled portraitist. Houbraken was the daughter of painter and writer Arnold Houbraken and sister of the printmaker Jacob Houbraken. It is assumed she learned to draw in her father’s workshop.
In 1723 she married Jacobus Stellingwerff, a draughtsman who also made topographical drawings for the albums of Andries Schoemaker, a numismatist and medal specialist and collector of topographical prints and drawings. Schoemaker was also a contributor to the famous standard work on Dutch medals ‘Nederlandsche Historipenningen” of Mr. G. van Loon. Antonina made a large portion of the drawings for Schoemaker.
 
This trompe l’oeil drawing shows the silver medal made in memory of Jan Wolfert van Brederode, Lord of Brederode, Vianen, Noordeloos and Ameide and commander of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. He was an officer and statesman during the Dutch Repuplic.
 
 
Together with an original burnished hollow cast silver medal from 1655 as depicted on the trompe l’oeil
 
Obverse: IOH. WOLFERDVS. D. D. BRED. COM. NAT. EX. COM. HOLL. DOM. S. D. V. / A. VICE. C. H. T. CONF. – BEL. IN. C. MARSCH. G, bust right, three quarters facing
Reverse: ETSI – MORTUUS – VRIT – MDCLV, head of a wild boar on two burning branches
 
By P. van Abeele
 
Blowhole on edge