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Ceiling with representations of Morning and Evening
Also titled Plafond met voorstellingen van de Ochtend en de Avond
Theodoor van der Schuer (The Hague, 1634–1707)
c. 1666 - c. 1695
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- interieuronderdeel
- Dimensions
- height 170 cm x width 499 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Ceiling from the bedroom of Mary Stuart, painted by T. C. van der Schuer, 1678. The wooden ceiling is from the bedchamber of Mary Stuart, wife of Prince William III. The room was at the stadholder's residence in the Binnenhof in The Hague. In 1672 William and Mary had the stadholder's quarters refurbished. Mary would have seen the ceiling as she rose and retired to bed. Which is why it is decorated with mythological scenes reflecting the themes of dawn and night. The two main scenes are on canvas. In the first the goddess Aurora chases the darkness with her torch, flying ahead of the sun god Apollo. On the other side of the ceiling night approaches and Apollo is chased away by a female figure.
