Justice

Justice

SK-A-4827

Justitia. De personificatie van de Gerechtigheid zittend op wolken, zonder blinddoek. Zij houdt in haar rechterhand de weegschalen, in de linkerhand een scepter met een stralend oog op het eind. Waarschijnlijk vervaardigd voor het Provinciaal Gerechtshof van Zeeland te Middelburg.

signature and date: ‘P: Gaal. F: 1802’

painter: Pieter Gaal

1802

oil on canvas

• height 282 cm x height 287 cm x width 303 cm
• height 308.5 cm x width 315.5 cm x depth 8.6 cm

Public domain

Commissioned by the Court of Justice of Zeeland, Middelburg, 1804;{Kramm II, 1858, pp. 523-4.}? from whom to the museum; first recorded in the museum in 1982

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