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Five Javanese Court Officials
The axiom ‘clothes make the man’ also held true in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but ‘types’. The accurately rendered garments and batik motifs indicate not only the region from which these men came, they also provide information about their rank and status. These resolute, confident figures are exceptional and were probably painted by a non-Western artist. In European depictions, Ind…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B111
- http://iconclass.org/44B116
- http://iconclass.org/45C13
- http://iconclass.org/44B152
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.29132
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
- Gilding
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery and the Mondriaan Stichting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B111
- http://iconclass.org/44B116
- http://iconclass.org/45C13
- http://iconclass.org/44B152
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.29132
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
- Gilding
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery and the Mondriaan Stichting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1820 - c.1870
Place-Time
- first quarter 19th century
- second quarter 19th century
- third quarter 19th century
Places
- Java
- Java
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.29132
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.485539
- NG-2010-39
Extent
- height 196.8 cm
- width 74.3 cm
- depth 4.5 cm
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T14:13:32.768Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T13:13:12.636Z