Parure (set of matching jewellery)
Also titled Parure (sieradenset)
Johannes Mattheus van Kempen (1814–1877)
c. 1854 - c. 1858
- Medium
- wool, leather, cardboard, hair, gold (metal), photographic support, velvet (fabric weave), email, glass
- Classification
- parure
- Dimensions
- height 28 cm x height 8 cm x width 20.5 cm x depth 33.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- 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
The writer and journalist E.J. Potgieter was among the first in the 19th century to devote attention to women from the past. He commissioned this jewellery set as a gift for a relative. The seven depicted Dutch women symbolize decisiveness and fortitude. Potgieter believed his lethargic countrymen could learn a lesson from them. The medallion contains a photograph of Potgieter and a lock of his hair.
