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Javanese Court Officials
Also titled Javaanse hoffunctionarissen
c. 1820 - c. 1870
- Medium
- gilding (material), paper, cotton (textile), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.5
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery and the Mondriaan Stichting
- 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
These five figures are representatives of the Javanese elite. The accurately depicted clothing and batik motifs signal where they come from and what their rank and status are. Knowledge of their etiquette and appearance was of great political importance to the colonial administration. The Javanese elite was increasingly deployed to control and exploit the colony in the first half of the 19th century.
