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The Muscovite legation visiting Amsterdam, 29 August 1697
Also titled Bezoek van het Moskovisch Gezantschap aan Amsterdam, 29 augustus 1697
Abraham Storck (Amsterdam, 1644–1708)
1697 - 1708
- Medium
- canvas, panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.5 cm
- 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
The arrival of the Russian embassy in Amsterdam, 29 August 1697, by Abraham Storck, c. 1700. Before travelling to The Hague, the Russian embassy visited Amsterdam. The city's merchants, who traded with Russia, spared no expense, welcoming the ambassadors with pomp and pageant. A firework display lit up the sky from a thirteen-metre high construction floating on two barges on the Amstel. The building on the left is the Kloveniersdoelen (Arquebusiers hall). Here the Russian embassy was treated to a banquet by the city council.
