Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Interior with Five Women
Also titled Interieur met vijf vrouwen
Dirck van Delen (Heusden (dorp), 1604–1671)
c. 1630 - c. 1652
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 5.5 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
In a stately interior, five women are making floral decorations. In Dutch, they are known as ‘klopjes’: Catholic women who have taken an oath of chastity. Unlike nuns, ‘klopjes’ participated actively in society and many of them had careers in education. ‘Klopjes’ chose not to marry, giving meaning to their life in a different way
