Singing Round the Star on Twelfth Night
Cornelis Troost was the leading Dutch painter of the eighteenth century. He had a theatrical background and painted narrative scenes filled with humorous details. Here we see a group of people going from house to house as they celebrate Epiphany, known in the Netherlands as Driekoningen (Three Kings). The revellers, who are dressed as the Three Kings of the Christmas story, sing traditional songs …
Creator
- Cornelis Troost
Type of item
- pastel
- Pastel
Medium
- paper on panel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
User generated content
- false
Identifier
- resource_document_mauritshuis_192
- 192
Format
- 56.9 cm
- 75.7 cm
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
Timestamp created
- 2017-08-02T11:48:21.300Z
Timestamp updated
- 2023-02-28T08:45:41.077Z