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Four Regents and the ‘House Father’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum
Also titled Vier regenten en de binnenvader van het leprozenhuis te Amsterdam
Werner van den Valckert (ca. –in o)
1624
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 134 cm x width 209 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The men wearing hats are the regents, or buitenvaders, of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum, which cared for people suffering from leprosy and other ailments. The bare-headed man at left is the binnenvader, or house father, charged with the daily running of the asylum. The relief behind the group illustrates an appropriate biblical scene: dogs licking the sores of Lazarus, a beggar afflicted with leprosy.
