# Pieter Lucaszn van de Venne with Anna de Carpentier and Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HELST, Bartholomeus van der]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 188 x 227 cm ## Commentary Pieter Lucaszn van de Venne with Anna de Carpentier and Child 1652 Oil on canvas, 188 x 227 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg This unusually large, life-size family portrait was commissioned by Pieter van de Venne, a wealthy burgher of Amsterdam. Theatrical illumination ensures that all attention is directed at the family; their surroundings are only cursory indicated. ## Related artworks - [Abraham del Court and Maria de Keersegieter]() - [Anna du Pire as Granida]() - [Celebration of the Peace of Münster, 1648, at the Crossbowmen's Headquarters \(detail\)]() - [Celebration of the Peace of Münster, 1648, at the Crossbowmen's Headquarters]() - [Portrait of a Family]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Gideon de Wildt]() - [Regents of the Walloon Orphanage]() - [Self-portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()