Man’s Cap
Also titled Muts voor een man
c. 1750
- Medium
- cotton (textile), silk
- Classification
- huismuts
- Dimensions
- height 30 cm x diameter 17 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkvrouw C.I. Six, 's-Graveland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
To our knowledge this is the only extant example of a chintz cap. In the Netherlands such caps were worn by gentlemen indoors. Since the model was unknown in India, the pattern – along with instructions for painting the design partly on the front and partly on the back of the piece of cotton – had to be sent from the Netherlands to India.
