Today we present a famous portrait by Rembrandt. Oopjen Coppit was 22 years old and expecting their first baby. A year ago she married Marten Soolmans, who was also painted by Rembrandt. Rembrandt’s full-length portraits show a couple with the world at their feet, dressed in costly clothing. Given the prevailing Protestant culture in Amsterdam when this painting was made in 1634, it is quite extraordinary that two such young people who had yet to achieve anything of note in society should choose to have themselves portrayed in such regal fashion.
今天我们展示一幅伦勃朗的著名肖像画。奥鹏科比特当时22岁，即将迎来她的第一个孩子。一年前，她嫁给了马腾-索尔曼斯，马腾-索尔曼斯也被伦勃朗描绘过。伦勃朗的另一幅全身肖像画描绘了一对夫妇，他们穿着昂贵的衣服，脚下有整个世界。这幅画创作于1634年，当时的阿姆斯特丹正盛行着新教文化，两个尚未在社会上取得任何成就的年轻人选择以这种帝王式的方式描绘自己，这是非常不寻常的。
Their self-assurance is matched by their wealth. Oopjen’s dowry amounted to 35,000 guilders, and Marten received assets worth 12,000 guilders when they married. In modern terms, their total shared capital was equivalent to almost 600,000 Euros. Oopjen’s family were members of the wealthy ruling elite who had accumulated capital through trade in grain and gunpowder.
他们的自信与他们的财富相匹配。奥鹏的嫁妆达3.5万荷兰盾，而马滕在结婚时得到了价值1.2万荷兰盾的财产。按现代标准计算，他们的总资产相当于近60万欧元。奥鹏的家族是富有的统治精英，通过谷物和火药贸易积累了资本。
The young couple’s happiness was short-lived when, unexpectedly, Marten died at the age of just 28 in 1641. Oopjen remarried in 1647. Her second husband, Maerten Daey, was a soldier who had served in Dutch Brazil from 1629 to 1641, partially under the colonial governorship of Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen. The number of ways in which the lives of Marten, Oopjen, and Maerten were entangled with the history of slavery is quite remarkable. They owed their wealth to slave labor in Brazil. Maerten lived in Brazil for some time; he sired a child there and had seen the sugar plantations with his own eyes. In Amsterdam they crossed paths with people who had left the days of slavery behind, and with others who were still working in unfree conditions. Close scrutiny of the lives of Oopjen and her husbands reveals the extent to which the history of slavery is bound up with the history of the Netherlands.
这对年轻夫妇的幸福是短暂的，原因是马腾不幸意外地在1641年去世，年仅28岁。奥鹏于1647年再婚。她的第二任丈夫梅尔滕-戴伊是一名士兵，曾于1629年至1641年在荷兰-巴西服役，曾经由担任殖民总督的纳索-锡根的约翰·毛里茨领导。马丁、奥鹏和戴伊的生活与奴隶制历史的联系是非常显著的。他们的财富来自巴西奴隶的劳动。梅尔滕曾在巴西生活过一段时间；他在那里还有一个孩子，亲眼看到了甘蔗种植园是怎样运作的。在阿姆斯特丹，他们遇到了一些人，虽然已经摆脱了奴隶时代，但是还有一些人仍然在不自由的条件下工作。
We share today's painting thanks to the Rijksmuseum.
感谢荷兰国立博物馆与我们分享今天的杰作。
