Het VOC-gezantschap te Kandy

Het VOC-gezantschap te Kandy

NG-1985-7-3-128

Het VOC-gezantschap op de jaarlijkse audiëntie in het paleis van de koning van Kandy, hier mogelijk in 1785. Midden en rechts hovelingen, links de eerste ambassadeur Cornelis de Cock in gesprek met een hoveling.

draftsman (artist): Jan Brandes, Kandy (voormalige natie)

1785-10-10 - 1785-12-30

schets in potlood

height 383 mm x width 518 mm

1785

purchase 1985-05-02

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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