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Chess Pieces
Also titled Schaakstukken
Saar de Swart (Arnhem, 1861–1951)
1923 - 1925
- Medium
- cuprous oxide, bronze (metal)
- Classification
- chess piece
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of het Otto van Noppen Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds en het Knecht-Drenth Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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
Sculptress Saar de Swart is known primarily as a patron of young Amsterdam artists around 1900. Within her own small oeuvre, these chess pieces constitute a special group. Together with the pawns – not shown here – they form a medieval court. Besides the king and queen, we see two clerics (the bishops), two knights (horses) and two sentries behind a battlement (rooks). The pieces were not actually meant to be used to play a game of chess.
