Model of the Memorial of J.F. de Friderici
Also titled Model van het gedenkteken voor J.F. de Friderici
Gerrit Schouten (Paramaribo (stad), 1779–1839)
1812
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- diorama
- Dimensions
- height 53.5 cm x width 42 cm x depth 13 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkheer F.W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland, Bloemendaal
- 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
Jurriaan François de Friderici, former soldier and Governor-General of Suriname from 1790 to 1802, died in 1812. Alongside his military career, he was also a planter and owned thirteen plantations. After his death, a memorial for him – most likely after this design by Gerrit Schouten – was placed in the Dutch Reformed Koepelkerk. The monument was lost in the fire that destroyed the city in 1821.
