Weeping and captive caryatids: Remorse and Penance
Also titled Treurende en gevangen kariatiden: Berouw en Boete
Artus Quellinus (I) (Antwerp, 1609–1668)
1650 - 1651
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- model
- Dimensions
- height 84.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Between the reliefs in the Vierschaar (Tribunal), or court of justice, in the Amsterdam Town Hall, Quellinus placed four female caryatids – weight-bearing sculpted figures – personifying Remorse (with their hands covering their face) and Penance (with bound hands).
