The Coach of Mangkoe Nagoro IV
Also titled De koets van Mangkoe Nagoro IV
Pieter Alardus Haaxman (Delft, 1814–1887)
c. 1870
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- length 80 cm x width 160.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Haaxman made this painting as a kind of advertisement for The Hague firm of carriage makers Hermans en Co. The coach depicted was ordered by the Javanese sultan Mangkoe Nagoro IV. The Roman numeral IV, a reference to the Javanese ruler, can be seen in the Dutch coat of arms on the door of the carriage. Around 1900, the authority of the local rulers was sometimes closely intertwined with that of the colonial regime.
