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Design for a Mural with Young People Making Music
Also titled Ontwerp voor een muurschildering met musicerende jongelui
Dionys van Nijmegen (Rotterdam, 1705–1798)
1715 - 1798
- Medium
- paper, ink, pencil, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- design
- Dimensions
- height 422 mm x width 330 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Thanks to reproductive prints, including those in this cabinet, Watteau’s compositions of elegant companies were disseminated and imitated throughout Europe. Here, the Dutch artist Dionys van Nijmegen, inspired by Watteau, invented a composition of a group of people making music in a garden. The trompe-l’oeil window indicates that the composition was meant for a decorative mural.
