Allegorical group
Also titled Allegorische groep
c. 1782 - c. 1784
- Medium
- porcelain
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- height 39.5 cm x width 27.2 cm x depth 21.1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
An elegantly dressed gentleman pays an old beggar woman to have his shoes polished by her son. His favourite pastime is symbolized by the statue of Diana, goddess of the hunt. The social theme depicted here was quite unusual for a porcelain figure group.
