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The Arrest of Diponegoro by Lieutenant General De Kock
Also titled De arrestatie van Diponegoro door luitenant-generaal De Kock
Nicolaas Pieneman (Amersfoort, 1809–1860)
c. 1830 - c. 1835
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 111 cm x width 134 cm x thickness 14 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of F.L.W., Baron de Kock, The Hague
- 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
Prince Diponegoro was the main leader in the Java War (1825-1830). Although he had been promised safe conduct, he was arrested during the peace negotiations. Pieneman painted this picture on commission for De Kock, responsible for this betrayal. The painting therefore does not show the actual treachery, but rather Diponegoro ‘submitting’ to Dutch authority. The self-assured Dutch commanders stand tall on the veranda. The Dutch tricolour flutters at full mast.
