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Tapir in the Water
Also titled Tapir in het water
Willem Hendrik Wilhelmus van Royen (Amsterdam, 1672–1742)
1706
- Medium
- paper, deck paint, ink, gouache (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 157 mm x width 147 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.C.J. Bierens de Haan, Amsterdam
- 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
For the first time in European history, in 1704, a live tapir was displayed in Amsterdam on the Botermarkt (now the Rembrandtplein). Emperor Leopold I had ordered the capture and taming of the animal so that people could see the creature up close. It was there that the Amsterdammer Willem van Royen saw it and afterwards made this drawing.
