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January, with the Sign of Aquarius
Also titled Januari met het teken van de waterman
Jan Kamphuijsen (Amsterdam, 1760–1841)
1791
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 334.5 cm x width 34.5 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
Josephus Augustinus Brentano had the picture gallery in his house on Amsterdam’s Herengracht painted in a classicizing style. Depicted on the ceiling were heroic scenes from the life of Hercules, framed by grotesques and arabesques, ornaments in the form of imaginary plants, and animals derived from Roman antiquity. Adorning the walls were twelve pilasters decorated in the same style and representing the Months of the Year.
