# Portraits of a Couple [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAVESTEYN, Jan Antonisz. van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 67 x 56 cm \(each\) ## Commentary The sitters of these portraits are Willem Fransz. Duyst van Santen \(1564-1610\), a member of a leading Northern Dutch Regent Family in Delft, and his second wife Catherine de Rechteren \(born 1567\). The details in these portraits confirm the couple's wealth and social status. In particular, Catherine's costume is of the greatest luxury, inspired by the Spanish fashion of the late 16th century, and worn in Flanders and the Northern Netherlands from 1600 onwards. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of Catherine de Rechteren]() - [Portrait of Sir John Burroughs]() - [Portrait of Willem Fransz. Duyst van Santen]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()