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The Shop of the Bookdealer Pieter Meijer Warnars on the Vijgendam in Amsterdam
Also titled De winkel van boekhandelaar Pieter Meijer Warnars op de Vijgendam in Amsterdam
Johannes Jelgerhuis (Leeuwarden, 1770–1836)
1820
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 48 cm x width 58 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- G. Meijer Warnars Bequest, Zutphen
- 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
Amsterdam’s cultural elite met up in this book and print shop. Warnars, the owner, was a bookdealer, publisher and printer. These activities are reflected in the full bookcases, the hanging banner, new reams of paper and the printing press on the floor. The painter of this scene, Johannes Jelgerhuis, was also a noted actor. The pronounced perspective of the shop interior makes it look like a stage set with a city view as a backdrop.
