Interior with Five Women

• Interior with Five Women
• Five Ladies in an Interior

SK-A-4246

inscription, on the clavichord: ‘CVM TIBI DIVITIAE SVPERANT IN FINE SE[NECTAE] // MVNIFICVS FACITO VIVAS, NON PARCVS AMIC[IS]’

In a stately interior, five women are making floral decorations. In Dutch, they are known as ‘klopjes’: Catholic women who have taken an oath of chastity. Unlike nuns, ‘klopjes’ participated actively in society and many of them had careers in education. ‘Klopjes’ chose not to marry, giving meaning to their life in a different way

• painter: attributed to Dirck van Delen
• painter: attributed to Bartholomeus van Bassen

c. 1630 - c. 1652

olieverf op paneel

• height 94.1 cm x width 141.8 cm
• depth 5.5 cm

Public domain

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