Allegorizing Group Portrait of the Children of Diederic Pietersz van Leyden van Leeuwen, Burgomaster of Leiden, and Alida Paets
Painter: Daniël Mijtens (II)
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Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Allegorizing portrait group of the children of Diederic Pietersz van Leyden (van Leeuwen), mayor of Leiden, and Alida Paets. Portrayed in a garden near a classical temple according to age: Maria (b. 1741) on the left with a laurel branch, Alida (b. 1660) seated with a toom or bridle, Theodora Catharina (b. 1661) with a snake and globe, Bernardina (ca. 1662-1716) with a shield, helmet, spear and golden cuirass, Suzanna (1664-1712) with a sword over a fire, Adrian William (1667-88) on the far left in Roman costume, Pieter (b. 1666) and Lodewijk (1668-97) in the foreground with a book and an oil lamp, François Adriaan (1669-1726) with an hourglass and Philippina, deceased as a child, in the air as a putto with a palm branch and wreath. In the right foreground, gourds, pumpkins or melons are growing.
