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Portrait of Edwin vom Rath’s Pug
Also titled Portret van de mopshond van Edwin vom Rath
Conradijn Cunaeus (Dendermonde, 1828–1895)
c. 1880 - c. 1895
- Medium
- paper, pencil, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 296 mm x width 395 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
After his parents died, the unmarried and childless Edwin vom Rath stayed on alone in the vast family house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. His only company was his pug, here portrayed by the dog painter Conradijn Cunaeus. Vom Rath used the fortune his family had amassed in trading and processing cane sugar to buy art and to support a variety of cultural institutions.
