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A Couple Making Love in a Park Spied on by Children
The Rotterdam painter Adriaen van der Werff made elegant, meticulously executed little paintings. This was the style of the Dutch fijnschilders (‘fine painters’), who worked in a highly polished manner to depict reality as precisely as possible. The skin of the woman here is painted so smoothly it looks like porcelain. She looks out at us, realizing that she and her lover are being spied on by us,…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/33C234
- http://iconclass.org/33C2262
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/33C234
- http://iconclass.org/33C2262
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
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
- 1694
- 1694
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6538
- SK-C-265
Extent
- height 37 cm
- width 30 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1694
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:52.844Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:23.841Z