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The Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society

Founded in 1777, the Amsterdam society called Felix Meritis (‘Happy through Merit’) grew into the cultural centre for the upper middle class. It had five depart-ments: commerce, natural science, music, literature and drawing. The drawing gallery could accommodate about sixty artists for life drawing classes in both daylight and lamplight. De Lelie, seated on the podium, looks out at us.

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  • http://iconclass.org/41A222
  • http://iconclass.org/48C52
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  • Amsterdam
  • Amsterdam
  • Felix Meritis
  • painting
  • Art of painting
  • On loan from the City of Amsterdam
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  • http://iconclass.org/41A222
  • http://iconclass.org/48C52
  • http://iconclass.org/48B13
  • Amsterdam
  • Amsterdam
  • Felix Meritis
  • painting
  • Art of painting
  • On loan from the City of Amsterdam
  • Rijksmuseum
  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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  • Public Domain
  • Publiek Domein
  • 1801
  • first quarter 19th century
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.12123
  • SK-C-538
  • height 100 cm
  • width 131 cm
  • canvas
  • oil paint (paint)
  • Canvas
  • nl
  • collection: paintings
  • collectie: schilderijen
  • 1801
  • Netherlands
  • 90402_M_NL_Rijksmuseum
  • 2014-05-27T20:18:14.917Z
  • 2018-03-17T14:38:25.008Z