Armchair used by President Paul Kruger
Also titled Armstoel gebruikt door president Paul Kruger
in or before 1900
- Medium
- beech (wood), maple (wood), ash (wood), osiers, poplar (wood)
- Classification
- armstoel
- Dimensions
- height 120 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.H.L.J., Baron Sweerts de Landas Wijborgh
- 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
Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic, arrived in Europe in 1900 on the Dutch warship Gelderland. On board ship he used this chair, which he had borrowed in Mozambique. Kruger never returned the chair, but presented it to the captain of the warship with some ceremony when he disembarked at Marseilles. The captain later gave the chair to the Rijksmuseum
