Lady's boudoir

Brandes, Jan

Lady's boudoir. This is a voyeuristic drawing; depicted on the right is a man peering into the room from behind a curtain. The woman of the house sits cross-legged on the floor.

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Is part of:

Jakarta

Creator

Brandes, Jan (draughtsman)

Period

1779-1785

Material

paper

Technique

pencil

Kind

drawing

Dimension

19,6 x 32,8 cm19,6 x 32,8 cm

Number

NG-1985-7-3-159

Owner

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Sources and literature

Bruijn, M. de en R. Raben, The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: Drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (2004)