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'[[File:Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit.jpeg|300px|thumb|Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppi, each {{convert|208|by|132|cm}}]] The '''''Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit''''' are a pair of full-length wedding portraits by [[Rembrandt]]. Formerly owned by the [[Rothschild family]], they became jointly owned by the [[Louvre Museum]] and the [[Rijksmuseum]] in 2015 after both museums managed to contribute half of the purchase price of €160 million, a record for works by Rembrandt.<ref name=guard>{{cite web |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/30/france-netherlands-rembrandts-louvre-rijksmuseum |title=France and Netherlands to jointly buy rare Rembrandts|author=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=30 September 2015|accessdate=15 October 2015|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>Bailey, Martin. "[http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/news/160333/ Polly wants a Rembrandt]". ''The Art Newspaper'', 16 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/arts/design/rembrandt-portraits-may-come-home-for-record-price-with-government-help.html |title=Rembrandt Portraits May Come Home, for Record Price, With Government Help|first=Nina|last=Siegel|date=21 September 2015|accessdate=15 October 2015|work=The New York Times}}</ref> ==History== The portraits were painted by Rembrandt upon the occasion of the wedding of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit in 1634.<ref name=guard/> Although the subjects were painted individually, the portraits have been kept together since their inception.<ref name=guard/> Unlike many 17th-century portrait pairs, these two have always hung side by side in various collections based in [[Amsterdam]] or [[Paris]]. They are also unusual in Rembrandt's oeuvre for their size and the fact that they show the subjects at full length. Appearing in period inventories at regular intervals since their creation, together they form part of Rembrandt's core oeuvre against which other paintings with a more questionable lineage are compared. The subjects [[Portrait of Maerten Soolmans|Maerten Soolmans]] and his wife [[Portrait of Oopjen Coppit|Oopjen Coppit]] are dressed as befits a pair of wealthy Amsterdam newlyweds. Though most in the art world agree these paintings should remain together, it became impossible for France to keep them within its borders, as the Louvre was unable to guarantee the necessary funding required to keep the ministry of culture from providing an export permit. The paintings have not been declared French national heritage.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rembrandt-portraits-rothschild-france-278667|title= Sale of Rembrandt Portraits Owned by Eric De Rothschild Worth €150 Million Sparks Controversy|first=Lorena |last=Muñoz-Alonso|publisher=[[Artnet]]|date=18 March 2015|accessdate=17 October 2015}}</ref> ==Provenance== The portraits were in the possession of the subjects' heirs until their sale in 1877 to [[Gustave Samuel de Rothschild]], a French banker.<ref name=nyt/> They were lent for exhibition once only, to the Rijkmuseum in 1956 for the artist's 350th birthday.<ref>[https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/HA-0009456 Photo] of the exhibition showing this pair of paintings in 1956.</ref> Before being sold, they were hung in a large hall in the Van Loon collection, described by [[Eugène Fromentin]] in 1877 with the remark that they were examples of Rembrandt at his best and were painted in the same period that Rembrandt painted his ''[[Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]]'', traditionally marking the beginning of his career in Amsterdam. Clearly, the flamboyance of these young newlyweds did more to launch Rembrandt's career as a portrait painter for the Amsterdam upper class than his sober depiction of a class of serious students in Leiden.<ref>[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/from002laat01_01/from002laat01_01_0015.php Commentary] by Fromentin in the [[Digital Library for Dutch Literature]]</ref> The entire Van Loon collection was sold to Rothschild for 40,000 pounds, which at the time was over a million francs.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125007719145#page/n366/mode/1up Pendants discussed] in ''Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time'', by [[Emile Michel]], 1894; "The two fine full-length portraits of Martin Daey and his wife, bought in August, 1877, with the rest of the Van Loon collection, by the Rothschild family, were taken by the Baron Gustave de Rothschild at a valuation of more than a million of francs (£40,000).'"</ref> [[Wilhelm von Bode]] was impressed enough to include both in his set of 595 [[photogravure]]s for his eight-volume 1898 treatise on Rembrandt. Fromentin and Bode had identified the paintings as portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Daey, but it was the Amsterdam historian [[Isabella Henriette van Eeghen]] who painstakingly traced their ownership to their original inventories and established the identities of the sitters.<ref>[[Horst Gerson]], Rembrandt paintings, catalog numbers 164 & 165, 1968.</ref> The current joint ownership is a new arrangement for the Louvre and Rijksmuseum, and it remains to be seen whether this experiment in international art purchasing will fit into exhibition plans of both institutions. Unlike many expensive paintings, these two will not be restricted by location and it is expected that they will be on tour regularly. According to Wim Pijbes, director of the Rijksmuseum, the paintings will not be separated, and each museum will own 50 percent of each painting.<ref name=guard/>la fuck ==Other records== The previous record for a pair of paintings was for two [[Titian]]s, his ''[[Diana and Callisto]]'' and ''[[Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon]]'', that also hang side by side and are today jointly owned by the [[National Gallery]] and the [[National Galleries of Scotland]].<ref name=nyt/> The previous record for a painting purchase at the Rijksmuseum was for ''[[A Mayor of Delft and his Daughter]]'' by [[Jan Steen]], for which they paid 11.9 million euro's in July 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/2004/08/16/rijksmuseum-verwerft-schilderij-van-jan-steen-7697831 |title=Rijksmuseum acquires painting by Jan Steen (Dutch) |date=16 August 2004|accessdate=31 October 2015|work=NRC Handelsblad}}</ref> The most expensive Rembrandt portrait sold before these is ''[[Portrait of a Foreign Admiral]]'', sold at [[Christie's]] in December 2009 for £20 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/53bbc2c4-e463-11de-a0ea-00144feab49a.html |title=Rembrandt sale Masterpiece fetches record £20m |date= 9 December 2009|accessdate=2 November 2015|work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref>SHIT!!! ==References== {{reflist|30em}} {{Rembrandt}} [[Category:Paintings by Rembrandt]] [[Category:2015 in the Netherlands]] [[Category:2015 in France]] [[category:1634 paintings]] [[Category:Collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]] [[Category:Paintings of the Louvre]]'