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Front View of Buitenzorg Palace during the Earthquake of 10 October 1834
Also titled Het paleis Buitenzorg gezien vanaf de voorzijde tijdens de aardbeving van 10 oktober 1834
Willem Troost (II) (Arnhem, 1812–1893)
1834 - 1836
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of F.E. Knoote, Bussum
- 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
In 1834, when J.C. Baud was the governor-general, an earthquake struck Buitenzorg (Bogor) Palace. Upon his return to the Netherlands Baud engaged Willem Troost to paint two pictures of his former residence: one before and one after the earthquake. Troost had never been to Indonesia and must have relied on sketches made by other artists. The injured woman on the chairs in the left foreground is probably Baud’s wife.
