Jacob van Oost I
Bruges 1603–1671

Portrait of Family
Oil on canvas 154 x 215 cm


Vast composition depicting a couple and their four children. On the left, the mother of the young woman and an ancestor on the left on the terrace of a park.
Oil on canvas, stretched on board, stretched on canvas, framed 
Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland
The painting in question, already owned by the Cipolloni family of Rome, has been exhibited among the Old Master paintings of the Dorotheum of Vienna 30.04.2019.
We are grateful to Jean Luc Meulemeester, who suggested attributing the painting to Jacob van Oost I based on a high-resolution photograph. A comparable painting by Jan van Oost, the foremost artist in 17th-century Bruges, can be found in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.