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The Tomb of Michiel de Ruyter in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
Also titled Het praalgraf van De Ruyter in de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam
Emanuel de Witte (Alkmaar, 1617–1692)
1683
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 123.5 cm x width 105 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Visitors are admiring Admiral de Ruyter’s imposing tomb monument. It occupies the place where the main altar once stood when the Nieuwe Kerk was still a Catholic church. The monumental marble tomb is a tribute to the naval hero, who died in 1667 off the coast of Sicily at the age of 69. It was designed by the sculptor Rombout Verhulst. De Ruyter’s son commissioned this painting.
