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Portrait of Raden Syarif Bustaman Saleh
Also titled Portret van Raden Syarif Bustaman Saleh
Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel (Maastricht, 1773–1853)
c. 1840
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10.5 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
Raden Saleh, scion of a Javanese regent family, came to the Netherlands in 1829 to study painting. Here we still see him as a European dandy before a Western seascape. However, he soon specialized in oriental scenes, and began dressing as a Javanese prince. Back on Java (1851), Raden Saleh built a small neo-Gothic palace, where he received the European elite. And so he constantly shifted between his Javanese and his European identity.
