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Portrait of a Wounded KNIL soldier
Also titled Portret van een gewonde KNIL-militair
Isaac Israels (Amsterdam, 1865–1934)
1882
- Medium
- oil paint (paint), hardboard
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 37 cm x width 23 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
After joining the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) in the former slave fortress of Elmina, Ghana, this man was called Kees Pop. His own name is unknown, but his parents were known as Kwamena and Ekoerva. ‘Pop’ served twelve years and fought in the Aceh War in Indonesia. Israëls painted him – with medals – while he was on sick leave in the Netherlands shortly before he returned to Africa.
