‘People Are Here Being Crushed for the Love of Art’
Also titled ‘Uit kunstliefde wordt men hier plat gedrongen’
Christiaan Andriessen (Amsterdam, 1775–1846)
1808
- Medium
- paper, pencil, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 126 mm x width 179 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
- 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
To stimulate Dutch art appreciation, Louis Napoleon (the king of Holland between 1806 and 1810) took the initiative of organizing exhibitions of works by contemporary Dutch artists. The first of them, depicted here, was mounted in the Royal Palace on Dam Square and flooded with visitors. On the day of the opening of this exhibition, the palace also opened the Royal Museum, the predecessor of the Rijksmuseum, which was accommodated there as well.
