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The View from the Batavian Embassy in Paris
Also titled Het uitzicht vanuit de Bataafse ambassade in Parijs
Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg, 1777–1847)
1801
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 97 cm x width 129.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkheer W.A. van den Bosch Bequest, Doorn
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, the Dutch ambassador in Paris, commissioned Knip to make a series of paintings of the Batavian embassy, the Hôtel de Beauharnais. This is the view from the embassy, towards the two identical facades of the Hôtel de la Marine and the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde. An optical telegraph is visible at right atop a gabled roof, while another one can be seen in the far right distance, on Montmartre. Such enabled contact between Paris and the Netherlands.
