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Doll’s House of Petronella Oortman
Also titled Poppenhuis van Petronella Oortman
Jacob Appel (I) (Amsterdam, 1680–1751)
c. 1710
- Medium
- canvas, parchment (animal material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 87 cm x width 69 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This doll’s house was so expensive that a painting was made of it. In assembling a doll’s house, wealthy ladies showed the ideal version of a Dutch household. This included a Black servant, seen in the left room on the middle floor. All of the original dolls have been lost, except for a baby in a cradle.
