anonymous
Afrikaanse vrouw met handtrom
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Andries Beeckman (1628-1664). Andries Beeckman recorded the people he saw on his travels to South Africa and Southeast Asia. As far as we know he drew them from life. Only he probably did not see the Khoikhoi woman with an infant in this way, as he copied her from a drawing in an English travel journal. Beeckman’s drawings found favour with European collectors and he also used them as preliminary studies for his paintings.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- NG-2016-37-11
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
