Silhouetportret van Bietja

• Silhouetportret van slavin Bietja (former title)
• Silhouetportret van Bietja

NG-1985-7-3-11

Silhouet van een borstbeeld van Bietja, een tot slaaf gemaakte vrouw uit de huishouding van Jan Brandes te Batavia. Omkaderd. Onderdeel uit het schetsboek van Jan Brandes, dl. 2 (1808), p. 3, 5, 7, 228, 230.

draughtsman: Jan Brandes, Jakarta

1780-06 - 1785-08-26

penseel in zwart over schets in potlood

height 142 mm x width 126 mm

Public domain

? Collection of the artist; his daughters, Johanna Maria Brandes (1792-1813) and Charlotta Constantia Brandes (1796-1870), Skälsebo;{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} by descent to Erik Kellberg (1883-1960);{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} ? to Brite-Louise Mangs-Kellberg;{File RMA.}…; anonymous sale, London (Sotheby’s), 2 May 1985 sqq., no. 216, £ 50,000, with xx other drawings, to the dealer W. Graham Arader III, New York, for the Rijksmuseum, in exchange for eighteen drawings that were part of this lot, 1985

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