Plantage in Suriname
Also titled Plantation in Surinam
Dirk Valkenburg (Amsterdam, 1675–1721)
1707
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 52.5 cm x width 45.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Jonas Witsen inherited the Waterland, Surimombo, and Palmeneribo plantations from his wife <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">Elisabeth Basseliers</span>. He sent the painter Dirk Valkenburg to Surinam to inspect these sites. In the foreground of the painting are some Lokono, among the original inhabitants of this region. The many people who worked in slavery on the plantation are missing in this representation.
