deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Portret van Nicolaus Luminator
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van Christoph Friedrich Stockmayer
Object type: print
Date: 1749 – 1767
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: historical persons, priests ~ hierarchy of priests
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Met zesregelig onderschrift in het Latijn.
Cephalus and Procris, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)
Object type: print
Date: 1644 – 1644
Techniques: etching
Artist: stefano della bella
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1610 – 1664
Subjects: men,dogs
The artist's son, Titus
Object type: print
Date: 1819 – 1819
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: pierre françois basan
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1723 – 1797
Subjects: draughtsman, historical persons, male infant
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent voor het eerst gebruikt in: Recueil de Quatre-Vingt-Cinq estampes originales, têtes, paysages et différens sujets, dessinées et gravées par Rembrandt. Parijs: Henry Louis Basan, 1819.
Naar de weide
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1911 – 1916
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Subjects: cow, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc., road, path
Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Nero
Object type: coin
Materials: gold, metal
Techniques: striking
Culture: roman
Location: rome
Inscriptions: Obverse: NERO.CAESAR.AVG.IMP.
Reverse: EX.SC (within wreath); PONTIF.MAX.TR.P.[IIII] P.P.

Obverse: Head of Nero right, bare
Reverse: Oak wreath with inscription EX. SC
Vuursteenpistool
Object type: flintlock pistol
Date: 1705 – 1710
Materials: brass, iron, wood
Techniques: casting, metalworking, cutting, embroidery, engraving, relief
Location: maastricht
Artist: jan krans jr.
Artist role: geweermaker, pistoolmaker
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘JEAN KRANS AMASTRICHT’, inscription: ‘IEAN KRANS // AMASTRICHT’
Allegorische voorstelling met Vader Tijd die de personificatie van de eeuwigheid een plaquette van Minerva toont
Object type: print
Date: 1725 – 1725
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: louis fabritius dubourg
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1693 – 1775
Subjects: (story of) minerva (pallas, athena), eternity, 'aeternitas'; 'eternità','eternità o perpetuità' (ripa), serpent ouroboros, father time, man with wings and scythe
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Scarab of Amenhotep III
Object type: scarab, amenhotep i
Date: 1295 – 1070
Materials: stone
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs,scarabs
Le Livre (Sainte-Thérèse)
Object type: print
Date: 1892 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: france
Subjects: the foundress of the reformed (discalced) carmelites, t(h)eres(i)a of avila; possible attributes: angel, arrow, dove, heart (flaming or pierced by an arrow), book
Inscriptions: signature (false): ‘Od.R.’, collector's mark (): Lugt 2760, collector's mark (): Lugt 2228

Deze prent is geëtst op de plaat die eerder door Redon gebruikt is voor "Enigma".
K.Botke
Flounce
Object type: textile
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cotton
Techniques: lace
Location: bayeux
Artist: auguste lefébure
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 –
Portret van Carl Friedrich Steinbach
Object type: print
Date: 1781 – 1803
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: christian gottlieb geyser
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1742 – 1803
Subjects: historical persons, ornament ~ festoon, garland
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: paris
Artist: darío de regoyos y valdés
Artist role: painter
Artist dates: 1857 – 1913
Subjects: the hague, painter, print maker, draughtsman, jan toorop, philip zilcken, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting), exhibition ~ art, money, paris
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Cornelia Beekman
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, stippling
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: likely american or british
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Alberini Palace, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Object type: print
Date: 1501 – 1600
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: architecture,buildings,rome

This print comes from the museum’s copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae’ first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clients composed their own selection from the corpus to be bound, or collected a group of prints over time. When Lafreri died, two-third of the existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (Claudio and Stefano), while another third was distributed among several publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. The museum’s copy of the Speculum entered the collection as a group of 3 albums with inlaid engravings and etchings. The prints have since been removed, but the original place of each print within the album is contained in the accession number: 41.72(volume.place). Originally volume 3, plate 61 in the scrapbook.
Schuldeisers
Object type: print
Date: 1846 – 1846
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Artist: paul gavarni
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1804 – 1866
Subjects: credit, walking, conversation, dialogue; conversation piece
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Prent gebruikt voor: Le Charivari, 7 juli 1846.
Tumbler
Object type: tumbler
Date: 1850 – 1860
Materials: glass
Techniques: pressed
Culture: american
Location: united states

With the development of new formulas and techniques, glass-pressing technology had improved markedly by the late 1840s. By this time, pressed tablewares were being produced in large matching sets and innumerable forms. During the mid-1850s, colorless glass and simple geometric patterns dominated. Catering to the demand for moderately-priced dining wares, the glass industry in the United States expanded widely, and numerous factories supplied less expensive pressed glassware to the growing market. At the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations at New York’s Crystal Palace in 1853, for example, the New England Glass Company exhibited 130 pieces of one design, "consisting of bowls, tumblers, champagnes, wines, and jelly glasses." This object belongs to one such service. Although the glass manufactory is not known, the glassware is very typical of the large services that were very popular with America’s middle class in the nineteenth century.
Portret van Élise Duguéret
Object type: photomechanical print
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Location: france
Artist: alexandre quinet
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1837 – 1900
Subjects: portrait of actor, actress
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 16’, inscription: ‘Journal hebdomadaire paraissant le jeudi Du 4 au 11 Septembre 1873’
Aanleg van het Viaur Viaduct in Frankrijk door de Societé de Construction des Battignolles, 17 juli 1901
Object type: photograph
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: cyanotype
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: viaduct, making the overground structures (~ building activities)
Inscriptions: date
Portret van een onbekend kind op een zuil
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1885 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: willem oldenkamp
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1864 – 1921
Subjects: studio requisites ~ photographer, half-column, pilaster ~ architecture, child (at home)
Inscriptions: name: ‘Photografische inrichtingen van W. Oldenkamp Arnhem Ridderstraat 22. Wageningen naast het Station. Negativen worden voor nabestelling bewaard.’, name: ‘W. Oldenkamp Arnhem. Wageningen’, name: ‘Trapp & Münch, Berlin’
Gezicht op Orléans, op de voorgrond de Pont George-V over de Loire
Object type: panoramic photograph
Date: 1851 – 1890
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: orléans
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bridge in city across river, canal, etc.
Candle Stands, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I
Object type: drawing ornament architecture
Date: 1753 – 1753
Materials: ink
Techniques: wash
Location: london
Artist: thomas chippendale
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1718 – 1779
Subjects: furniture

Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate CXX in the 1754 and 1755 editions, but not reprinted in the 1762 edition.
Overwinningen aan de Schelde, Leie en Ieper
Object type: history medal
Date: 1699 – 1703
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: paris
Artist: jean mauger
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1648 – 1722
Subjects: lodewijk xiv (koning van frankrijk)

Bronzen penning. Voorzijde: borststuk jongeman (Lodewijk XIV) binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: Bellona, godin van de oorlog rijdt op zegewagen tussen drie verbaasde riviergoden door binnen omschrift; afsnede: opschrift
Netsuke
Object type: netsuke
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ivory, lacquer
Culture: japanese
Subjects: human figures
De gastvrijheid van Abraham
Object type: drawing
Date: 1606 – 1674
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: leonaert bramer
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1596 – 1674
Subjects: abraham entertaining the three angels
Figure of a River God (Fleuve)
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1747 – 1750
Materials: ceramic, porcelain, soft paste porcelain
Location: vincennes
Artist: vincennes porcelain manufactory

White porcelain figures covered with transparent glaze were the first examples of sculpture to emerge from Vincennes. Unusual for its large scale, this figure is a sculptural tour de force. The river god’s taut musculature, expressive limbs, and windblown hair are modeled with extraordinary vigor.
Square Piano
Object type: square piano
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: bone, wood, iron
Culture: austrian
Location: austria
Artist: anton vatter
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: austrian

This square piano may have come from the workshop of Anton Walter. One of the most important piano makers in the Viennese tradition, Walter improved upon the German piano action of Johann Andreas Stein. Around 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart purchased a grand piano from Walter, which he used to write most of his later piano works. There are no other known square pianos from the Walter workshop, and the unusual spelling of the maker's last name may indicate that this instrument was built by another maker. This square piano has a simple case without decoration, probably of cherry wood and sits on top of four square, tapered legs. The keyboard has sixty-one keys (FF-f3) with ebony naturals and bone slips over dark stained accidental blocks. There are two knee levers, the left operates a felt piano stop and the right lifts the dampers. German action with escapement, brass kapsels, and overhead dampers.
Brief aan Wibbina Maria Korteweg-d'Aulnis de Bourrouil
Object type: letter
Date: 1907 – 1907
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: bussum
Artist: jan veth
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1925
Subjects: pieter oyens, brussels, david oyens, wibbina maria barones korteweg-d'aulnis de bourrouil, den bosch, amsterdam, historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life), money
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Caapse trekos
Object type: drawing
Date: 1786 – 1786
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Location: south africa
Artist: jan brandes
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1743 – 1808
Subjects: ox, cape of good hope
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Caapse trek os 30 oct 1786.’, inscription: ‘Bos taurus, domesticus africanus.’

Zwartwittekening van een rund met een soort halster om zijn nek, zijaanzicht. Met opschrift. Onderdeel uit het schetsboek van Jan Brandes, dl. 2 (1808), p. 190.
Goblet
Object type: goblet
Date: 1825 – 1850
Materials: glass, lead
Techniques: glassblowing
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: jersey glass company of george dummer
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1824 – 1862
Wenskaart met tekst op de voorzijde
Object type: greeting card
Date: 1950 – 1984
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: birthday

Wenskaart met op de voorzijde: Hartelijk gefeliciteerd Lina.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, part of meander; Exterior; lower drapery of figure
Textile Fragment
Object type: textile fragment
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: metal thread, silk
Techniques: lampas
Location: turkey

The ogival lattice pattern seen in this silk was one of the most popular designs for textiles in the Ottoman court. Popular in both China and Mamluk Egypt, the ogival design made its way into the Ottoman visual repertoire, where it was combined with the floral style favored by the imperial court. The tall, narrow, irregular shape of this silk textile suggests it was cut for use as a sleeve of a robe or other garment.
Brief aan de commissie van de Tentoonstelling van Levende Meesters in Utrecht
Object type: letter
Date: 1848 – 1848
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: the hague
Artist: frans arnold breuhaus de groot
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1872
Subjects: painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting), exhibition ~ art, art collecting, money
Inscriptions: watermark, collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Landschap, met links een sculptuur van Christus aan het kruis
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1900 – 1901
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: berlin
Artist: otto scharf
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: landscapes, cross ~ instruments of the passion
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, at the left, part of a leopard skin?; filleted, bearded male, bending to right, with a knobby staff resting against his left shoulder, and a himation draped over his left shoulder and arm, holding an oinochoe in his right hand; part of an inscription, KAL[OS]
Kalenderblad voor december 1899
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: theo nieuwenhuis
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1951
Subjects: plants (in general), calendar, almanac

Randdecoratie van bladeren rond de maandkalender. Bovenrand geperforeerd waar dit kalenderblad verbonden was met de rest van het jaar.
Portret van Johannes Leusden
Object type: print
Date: 1694 – 1694
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: johannes leusden
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van Johannes Leusden, theoloog en professor te Utrecht op 69-jarige leeftijd. Met zijn rechterhand maakt hij een spreekgebaar.
Stirrup Spout Bottle with Deer
Object type: bottle
Date: 1 – 600
Materials: ceramic, pigment
Culture: moche
Location: peru
Subjects: deer
Nederlandse franc, 1813
Object type: coin
Date: 1813 – 1813
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: utrecht
Artist: napoleon i (emperor of the french)
Artist role: generaal, keizer, staatsman
Artist dates: 1769 – 1821

Zilveren munt. Voorzijde: gelauwerd borstbeeld van Napoleon I naar rechts. Keerzijde: binnen olijfkrans waarde-aanduiding 1 franc. Jaartal in omschrift onderaan. Randschrift.
Length
Object type: length
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silk
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Object type: sword guard tsuba
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: copper, iron
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Subjects: leaves

This tsuba features an openwork design of snow and bamboo. It is made in the so-collared tōshō (swordsmith's) style.
Portret van een vrouw
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1865 – 1887
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: haarlem
Artist: jan george mulder
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1816 – 1895
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Photogr. Atelier/ J.G. Mulder/ Lange Bagijnestraat/ over de Israëlitische Kerk/ Haarlem’
Geiten bij een wijnrank
Object type: print
Date: 1654 – 1654
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: vine-tendril, leaf, landscapes, goat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In een heuvelachtig landschap staan drie geiten bij een wijnrank die zich om het struikgewas heeft geslingerd. Een van de geiten is van achter gezien. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een tiendelige serie over diverse dieren.
Naaister bij het raam
Object type: page
Date: 1900 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Subjects: sewing
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘A quiet corner by Guido Rey’, inscription: ‘I. V.’
Portret van Gregorio Leti met monnikskap
Object type: print
Date: 1697 – 1697
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam, history and archaeology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), historical persons, portrait of a writer, monk(s), friar(s)

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: Leti, Gregorio. Critique historique, politique, morale, économique & comique sur les Lotteries (...). Amsterdam: s.n. [Chez les Amis de L'Auteur], 1697, dl. 1.
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
Object type: lekythos fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic
Ewer with Parrots
Object type: ewer
Date: 901 – 1000
Materials: ceramic glaze, glaze, stoneware
Techniques: incising
Culture: chinese
Subjects: parrots

Introduced to China in the first and second century, tropical parrots from mainland and island Southeast Asia quickly became a motif in the decorative arts, valued for their exoticism and their purported ability to speak Chinese.
Bootswerft met twee mannen aan het werk
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: g. van citters
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: pier, quay, wharf
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Glass jar
Object type: jar
Date: 301 – 500
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Probably colorless or with a faint greenish tinge. Uneven, fine, rounded vertical rim; broad mouth; funnel-shaped neck; bulbous body; pushed-in bottom with low central kick. Intact; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, dulling, brilliant iridescence, and small patches of creamy weathering.
Negen portretten in reliëf en een Turkse ring
Object type: photograph
Date: 1857 – 1867
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: f. cole
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: ring, sculpture, sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)
Inscriptions: number: ‘158 -165A’
Padina deusta
Object type: photogram
Date: 1853 – 1853
Techniques: cyanotype
Artist: anna atkins
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1799 – 1871
Subjects: plants
Het ontzet van Leiden, 1574
Object type: print
Date: 1853 – 1861
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: netherlands
Subjects: raising the siege with outside assistance, relief, leiden

Illustratie voor: Jacob van Lennep, De geschiedenis des vaderlands in schetsen en afbeeldingen, Binger, Amsterdam 1855-1861, 8 delen, pl. XXVIII. Niet in Frederik Muller; door het RPK toegevoegd nummer.
Dedicatory Verses by Meryon to Reinier Nooms, Called Zeeman
Object type: print
Date: 1854 – 1854
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: france
Artist: charles meryon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1821 – 1868
Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, two rim fragments with parts of circumscribed palmettes
River Scene
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1644 – 1911
Materials: ink, silk
Culture: chinese
Artist: unidentified artist
Artist role: artist
Subjects: rivers,landscapes,boats
Spotprent
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1876
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague

Spotprent . Plaat verschenen bij het weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, nr. 15, 1876.
A skeleton frightening a man holding newspapers
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1910
Techniques: lithography
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Subjects: skeletons,fear,men
Portret van een zittende vrouw in een witte jurk
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1870 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: sitting figure - aa - female human figure, historical persons - bb - woman
Half Figure of a Female Saint
Object type: drawing
Date: 1728 – 1781
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: ubaldo gandolfi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1728 – 1781
Subjects: women,saints
Portret van een staande jongen bij een stoel, aangeduid als Louis
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1871 – 1871
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: charleroi
Artist: prosper bevierre
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1822 – 1893
Subjects: boy (child between toddler and youth), historical persons, chair
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Le petit Louis vous/ souhaite une bonne/ année./ 1er Janvier 1871.’, inscription: ‘Bevierre/ Charleroi’
Zachary Taylor Shafer, 2nd Base, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes
Mug
Object type: mug
Date: 1770 – 1820
Materials: glass
Techniques: engraving
Location: czech republic
Mrs. Fitzherbert
Object type: print
Date: 1786 – 1786
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: j. cook
Artist role: engraver
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1780 – 1790
Subjects: portraits,women
Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671
Object type: painting
Date: 1671 – 1675
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: caspar netscher
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1639 – 1684
Subjects: leiden, amsterdam, vienna, maria anna van oostenrijk (koningin van spanje), audition; ruler giving audience - bb - female ruler, spain
Inscriptions: signature: ‘C. Netscher’

Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671, by Caspar Netscher. The expansionist policies of France's King Louis XIV forced the Republic to look for allies. In 1670 a pact was agreed with Spain. Maria Anna of Austria, the Spanish queen regent, received the Dutch diplomat Hieronymus van Beverningk in secret on 2 March 1671 in Madrid. The queen regent is dressed as an abbess (head of a convent). Standing behind the table is one of her advisors. The woman on the right in the foreground is Joanne le Gibbon, wife of Van Beverningk.