# Four Regents and the ‘House Father’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum

- By: Werner van den Valckert (ca. –in o)
- Date: 1624
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 134 cm x width 209 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-417--da0cdb7161401218618c153f9d64b760)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/SJCsM/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.