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The Meal in Honour of Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen
Also titled De maaltijd aangeboden aan ambassadeur Cornelis Calkoen
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (Valenciennes, 1671–1737)
c. 1727 - c. 1730
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 90 cm x width 120 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
As part of the ceremony, Calkoen attended a meeting in the divan or council chamber of the palace, after which he and his retinue were offered a meal by the grand vizier. This meal is shown here. At centre, across from the grand vizier, Calkoen sits on a low stool, flanked by two interpreters. The sultan could listen (unnoticed) behind the small grilled window above –hence called ‘the Eye of the Sultan’.
