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Design for the Funeral Monument of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp
Also titled Ontwerp voor het grafmonument van Maerten Harpertsz Tromp
Rombout Verhulst (Mechelen, 1624–1698)
c. 1654
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- length 62 cm (recumbent figure)
- 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
In the 17th century, the State came to be an important commissioner of public funerary monuments for ‘national heroes’. Grand tombs were ordered especially after 1650, when various naval battles were fought against the English. Rombout Verhulst was the leading specialist in funerary monuments. He also made the tomb for Lieutenant-Admiral Maerten Tromp (1598–1653) in Delft, for which this terracotta is a design.
