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Portrait of Raden Syarif Bustaman Saleh
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Raden Saleh, scion of a Javanese regent family, came to the Netherlands in 1829 to study painting. Here we still see him as a European dandy before a Western seascape. However, he soon specialized in oriental scenes, and began dressing as a Javanese prince. Back on Java (1851), Raden Saleh built a small neo-Gothic palace, where he received the European elite. And so he constantly shifted between his Javanese and his European identity.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of Raden Syarif Bustaman Saleh. c. 1840. Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
