# Portrait of the De Moucheron Family [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ZEEUW, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel, 108 x 247 cm ## Commentary There exists a type of painting in the 16th Century representing a bourgeois family sitting at table. These family portraits depict prosperous families whose members, belonging to various generations, are ranged around a covered table. Contemporary family portraits by Cornelis de Zeeuw and Maerten van Heemskerck are good examples of this genre. Pierre de Moucheron \(1508-1567\) was the son of a Norman noble. He became he became a burgess of Middelburg in 1530 and built up a thriving trading company. In 1545 he moved his business to Antwerp. In this family portrait he is depicted with his wife Isabeau de Berbier and their eighteen children, their son-in-law Allard de la Dale, and their first grandchild. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman]() - [Portrait of an Unknown Young Man]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()