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Silhouettes of women playing music, reading and doing needlework
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Silhouettes of women playing music, reading and doing needlework

Joseph Adolf Schmetterling · 1786 · brush; snipping; paper; paint (coating); prepared paper; pencil

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Silhouette of eight persons engaged in music, reading and needlework. From left to right: two ladies at a small table, the left one drawing a bouquet of flowers and the right one busy with needlework. Next to them a standing man with raised index finger leaning on a chair on which a reading lady sits. Opposite them two children, a girl and a boy with needle and stick in hand. To the right a lady with hat seated at a harpsichord. Behind her chair another lady, also with a hat on, looks on. Above the company hang two birdcages with in each cage a little bird. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Fine Arts, Silhouette Portraits.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineSilhouet van musicerende, lezende en handwerkende vrouwen. 1786. Joseph Adolf Schmetterling. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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