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Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their Daughters and Two Enslaved Servants
Also titled Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, hun dochters en twee tot slaaf gemaakte bedienden
Jacob Coeman (Amsterdam, died 1676)
1665
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 132 cm x width 190.5 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
Cornelia van Nijenrode was the daughter of a Japanese courtesan and a Dutch East India Company (VOC) merchant. She was married to the wealthy senior VOC merchant Cnoll. In the background is Surapati, one of their servants. He fled slavery several years after he was portrayed here. First, he fought in the service of the VOC, but later against it. Surapati then became a monarch in East Java and centuries later was proclaimed Indonesia’s national hero.
