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The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
Also titled De lijken van de gebroeders De Witt
Jan de Baen (Haarlem, 1633–1702)
c. 1672 - c. 1675
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 69.5 cm x width 56 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
The ultimate humiliation: the nude, flayed corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt on public display in the Groene Zoodje, the execution ground on the Vijverberg in the middle of The Hague. On 20 August 1672 they were assassinated by their political opponents. Johan had been the most powerful man in the Republic for close to twenty years, steadfastly supported by his brother Cornelis. But they were held responsible for everything that went wrong in the year 1672, known as the ‘Year of Disaster’.
