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Portrait of the Cock Blomhoff Family, their Wetnurse and two Enslaved Servants
Also titled Portret van de familie Cock Blomhoff, hun min en twee tot slaaf gemaakte bedienden
1817
- Medium
- wood (plant material), paint (coating), silk
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 95.7 cm x width 173.3 cm x depth 3.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Mondriaan Stichting, the Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, the K.F. Hein Fonds and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting
- 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
When the director Jan Cock Blomhoff travelled to Japan in 1817, he did something highly unusual: he took along his family. Western women were not allowed onto Deshima. Titia, her young son and the wetnurse thus had to leave the country a few months later. A Japanese artist portrayed the family. From left to right are: Jan Cock Blomhoff, the wetnurse Petronella Munts, Titia Cock Blomhoff-Bergsma, her son Jan and two enslaved Javanese servants: Maraty and an unknown boy.
