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View of Deshima
Also titled Gezicht op Deshima
1833 - 1836
- Medium
- silk
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 600 mm x width 850 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.H. de Reus Bequest
- 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
Nagasaki was home to the painter Keiga’s workshop, which specialized in meticulous, documentary depictions of scenes in Japan. Dutch staff on Deshima could buy paintings like these as mementos, to show people at home where they had spent their time. While Japanese and Dutchmen can be distinguished, enslaved people are notably absent.
