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Piano Practice Interrupted
Also titled Het gestoorde pianospel
Willem Bartel van der Kooi (Augustinusga, 1768–1836)
1813
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 147 cm x width 121 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H. van der Kooi, Leeuwarden
- 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
The Frisian painter Willem Bartel van der Kooi was a master at depicting children. The children in this painting are portrayed so playfully and naturally that the work resembles a snapshot. However, appearances are deceiving, for Van der Kooij carefully arranged the children to form a triangular composition. It is not known whether the painting is a portrait or an imaginary scene.
