Image not available
Het Committè van Noodlydende
Published
[1796]
etching
image: 25.2 x 20.9 cm; plate: 27.5 x 22 cm; sheet: 29.4 x 23.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2913
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 11.
Plate number 11 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 11.
Plate number 11 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Three men gorge at a dinner-table laden with food and wine. A fat man with the table-cloth tucked under his chin gnaws a bone. A more elegant man (left) wearing ear-rings, offers a bare bone to a little ragged boy. A third (right) drinks. A man-servant stands behind, another (right) with bludgeon and clenched fist drives back a starving couple who stand in the doorway making gestures of supplication.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Catalog link