# Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck with his Wife and Children [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PRUD'HON, Pierre-Paul]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 263,5 x 200 cm ## Commentary From 1798 to 1802, Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck \(1761-1825\) was the envoy of the Batavian Republic \(as the Netherlands was then known\) in Paris. However, Prud'hon did not portray him as a diplomat but as the head of a family, with his wife Catharina Nahuys, his twelve-year-old daughter Catharina and his eight-year-old son Gerrit. Prud'hon exhibited this painting at the Salon in Paris, with the title Réunion de famille. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and the Nine Muses on Mount Parnassus]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Innocence Preferring Love to Wealth]() - [Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime]() - [Nude Viewed from Behind]() - [Portrait of Georges Anthony]() - [Portrait of Princess Talleyrand]() - [Portrait of the King of Rome]() - [The Empress Josephine]() - [Venus Bathing]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()