IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 1659 accession number: 437 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Oil painting on canvas, depicting the four daughters of Sir Matthew Decker. A curtain is pulled aside, revealing Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Henrietta Maria, each dressed in fine clothes. They are either holding or gesturing towards a treasured possession, these being a china doll, a silver lattice work basket piled high with fruit, a bouquet of cultivated roses, and a lapdog. These objects are resting on a carved plinth, depicting children gathered around what may be a goat. title: painting NOTES ----- type: history note value: Presumably coll. Sir Matthew Decker, Bart., his maternal grandfather (d. 1749) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/1659 PEOPLE ------------------- The daughters of Sir Matthew Decker Portrait of a child SUBJECTS ------------------- toy cloth curtain fashion fruit Interiors toy cloth curtain fashion fruit Interiors TECHNIQUES ---------- oil on canvas painting (image-making) CATEGORIES ------ category: painting DATING ------ creation date: 1718 - 1718 creation date earliest: 1718 creation date latest: 1718 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meyer, Jan van DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 77.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 66.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Dutch Connection title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment title: Real Families: life in Art CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, Dutch and Flemish The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 874 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 586 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 874 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 293 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/575/467/large_437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1148 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/575/467/mid_437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 561 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/437_201408_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/575/467/preview_437_201408_adn21_mas.jpg height: 280 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/575/467/437_201408_adn21_mas.ptif height: 5305 pixels width: 4732 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/181/large_437_201408_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 1209 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/181/mid_437_201408_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 590 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/181/437_201408_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 4786 pixels width: 4054 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/630/181/preview_437_201408_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 295 pixels width: 250 pixels