Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their Daughters and Two Enslaved Servants

• Pieter Cnoll. Senior Merchant of Batavia, his Wife Cornelia van Nijenroode and their Daughters Catharina (b. 1653) en Hester (b. 1659)
• Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their Daughters and Two Enslaved Servants

• Pieter Cnoll. Senior Merchant of Batavia, his Wife Cornelia van Nijenroode and their Daughters Catharina (b. 1653) en Hester (b. 1659)
• Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their Daughters and Two Enslaved Servants

SK-A-4062

signature and date: ‘J. Coeman fec. Batt.a 1665.’

Cornelia van Nijenrode was the daughter of a Japanese courtesan and a Dutch East India Company (VOC) merchant. She was married to the wealthy senior VOC merchant Cnoll. In the background is Surapati, one of their servants. He fled slavery several years after he was portrayed here. First, he fought in the service of the VOC, but later against it. Surapati then became a monarch in East Java and centuries later was proclaimed Indonesia’s national hero.

Documentatiemap: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

painter: Jacob Coeman

1665

olieverf op doek

• height 141.5 cm x width 201.5 cm x thickness 7.5 cm
• height 132 cm x width 190.5 cm
• weight 23 kg

purchase 1961-04

Public domain

Inv.; collectie Norman Armour (1887-1982), Den Haag, 1921;{Note RKD.}…; private collection, France;{Note RMA.}..; the dealer J. Kugel. Paris;{Note RMA.} from whom, to the dealer N. Israël, Amsterdam, fl. 5,200, to the museum, 1961

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentatiemap: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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