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Stadtholder Prince Maurice Lying in State
Also titled Stadhouder prins Maurits op zijn praalbed
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (Delft, ca. –1662)
c. 1625
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 9.8 cm x width 14.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
Prince Maurice died on 23 April 1625 at the age of 57. Rumour had it that he was poisoned. However, an autopsy proved that his death was due to an abscess on his liver. Shortly afterwards, he was embalmed and laid in state, dressed in a fur-lined tabard, as seen in this small portrait. The burial took place in Delft on 20 September
