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The Anglers
Also titled De hengelaars
Nicolaas Verkolje (Delft, 1673–1746)
c. 1744
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchase made possible by an anonymous bequest
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Gotcha! Both the men and the women gesture in the direction of the float lying on its side. But who is being hooked here? The ambiguous meaning of this innocentlooking scene will not have escaped the 18th-century viewer. In those days, fishing and catching birds, the subject of the accompanying painting (also on view on this wall), were well-known metaphors for making love.
