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Portrait of a Wounded KNIL Soldier
The Dutch dubbed this West-African soldier ‘Kees Pop’, an archetypal Dutch name, because they were unable to pronounce his original name. Many soldiers were recruited from the former slave centre of Elmina (now Ghana) into the Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) to fight the rebellious Indonesians. ‘Pop’ signed on in 1869 for a twelve-year tour of duty; he fought in the Aceh War and was decorated for hi…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/45B81
- http://iconclass.org/45B82
- http://iconclass.org/45B433
- Atjeh-oorlog
- KNIL
- Pop, Kees
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/45B81
- http://iconclass.org/45B82
- http://iconclass.org/45B433
- Atjeh-oorlog
- KNIL
- Pop, Kees
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1882
- 1882
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 19th century
Places
- Netherlands
- Nederland
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.17
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
Provenance
- …; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (Sotheby’s), 24 April 1989, no. 364, unsold;{Note RMA.} anonymous sale, Amsterdam (Sotheby’s), 7 November 1989, no. 302, unsold;{Copy RMA.}…; Dutch art market, 1989-98;{possibly the dealers Paulus van Pauwvliet (Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant), Salomon Lilian (Amsterdam), W. de Boer (Alkmaar), Willem Rueb(Amsterdam). File RMA.}…; from the dealer Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam, fl.62,500, to the museum, 2000
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.358366
- SK-A-4954
Extent
- height 37 cm
- width 23 cm
Format
- hardboard
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1882
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:46.827Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:12.901Z