Book chest of Hugo de Groot
Also titled Boekenkist mogelijk van Hugo de Groot
c. 1600 - c. 1615
- Medium
- iron (metal), leather, spruce (wood), wood (plant material), runderleer
- Classification
- suitcase
- Dimensions
- height 73 cm x width 160 cm x depth 75 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
In his fall from grace, Oldenbarnevelt also took down a few friends. The most famous of them was the celebrated jurist Hugo de Groot. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but managed to escape by hiding in a chest used to bring him books. The chest on display here was long thought to be the one from this famous story.
