Stadtholder Prince William v
Also titled Stadhouder prins Willem v
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Maastricht, 1750–1812)
1789
- Medium
- parchment (animal material), pastel (crayon)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 62.7 cm x width 52.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Under pressure from fierce opposition to his rule, Stadtholder William V and his family fled The Hague in 1785. They returned two years later and the stadtholder’s authority was restored. This provided the occasion to commission a series of portraits of the members of his family from the portraitist Tischbein. The artist produced a fashionable group of oval portraits in pastel. The giltwood frames were made by the Hague framemaker Hendrik Ebbens.
