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Portraits of Surinamese Girls
Also titled Portretten van Surinaamse meisjes
c. 1805
- Medium
- ivory, metal, gilding (material), wood (plant material), paint (coating)
- Classification
- miniature (painting)
- Dimensions
- height 5.9 cm x width 4.8 cm x weight 24.9 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
We may not know the identities of these women, but their status is apparent from their clothing, jewellery, and the existence of portraits depicting them. They must have been free women who held positions in Surinamese society. One of them wears a white-cotton angisa, a headscarf folded in a special way. It was worn by enslaved women as well as free women of colour.
