portrait by Adolfo Ramón, 2008

Portrait

Portrait painted by the Spanish-Dutch artist Adolfo Ramón (1947 - ). Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, November 2007 - January 2008. Leiden, Academy Building, Room of the Faculty of Humanitities.

The portrait was presented to de Jonge by colleagues, friends and students on the occasion of his retirement in 2007. It shows him at 64, reading the Greek New Testament in the edition printed and published by Abraham and Bonaventura Elzevier, Leiden 1633. A copy of the edition printed and published by Louis Elzevier, Leiden 1624, is lying before him on his desk. On a bookshelf, one sees a round black basalt portrait medallion of Erasmus of Rotterdam, modeled after a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger ('Erasmus im Rund', 1532) and produced by Wedgwood (U.K.; 20th c. ?).