The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz
Also titled De kunstgalerij van Jan Gildemeester Jansz
Adriaan de Lelie (Tilburg, 1755–1820)
1794 - 1795
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 63.7 cm x width 85.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
In 1792, the merchant Gildemeester converted two large rooms in his house on Amsterdam’s Herengracht into a picture gallery. Here we see that the walls are densely hung with paintings in gilded frames. Gildemeester stands in the middle of the front room, conversing with one of his guests. The visitors are studying the famous works, including a Rembrandt, visible above Gildemeester’s head.
