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The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers  wikidata:Q17319663 reasonator:Q17319663
Artist
Attributed to Jan de Baen (1633–1702)  wikidata:Q759784
 
Attributed to Jan de Baen
Alternative names
Jan de Baan
Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 20 February 1633 Edit this at Wikidata 8 March 1702 (buried)
Location of birth/death Haarlem Edit this at Wikidata The Hague Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1650 and circa 1702
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Amsterdam (1645-1648), The Hague (1660-1702)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q759784,P5102,Q230768
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image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Les,"Los cadáveres de los hermanos De Witt"
label QS:Lde,"Die Leichname der de Witt Brüder"
label QS:Lar,"جثث الأخوان دي ويت (لوحة)"
label QS:Lnl,"De lijken van de gebroeders De Witt"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The mutilated corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hung on the stake on the Groene Zoodje in The Hague, 20 August 1672. Bottom right a man with a torch.
Depicted people
Date between 1672 and 1675
date QS:P,+1672-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1672-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1675-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions height: 69.5 cm (27.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 56 cm (22 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+69.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+56U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Current location
hall 2.18
Accession number
SK-A-15 (Rijksmuseum) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

1802: acquired by the Nationale Konst-gallerij, Huis ten Bosch, The Hague

1808: transferred to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Exhibition history Denkbeeldig vaderland. Kunst en politiek in de Bataafs-Franse tijd 1795-1813, Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, 24 November 1995–11 February 1996, ISBN 9012082633, cat. no.  32.
Inscriptions
verso:
Dit sijn de lijcken van Jan ende Cornelis de Witt door een voornaem schilder naer het leeven afgeschildert soo als deselven des avonts ten elff ueren noch aenden wip hingen. Cornelis is die geene sonder pairuque. Jan de Witt met sijn eijgen hair. Dit is het eenichste principaal naer het leven gedaen den XX augusti MDCLXXII en daerom veel gelt waerdich.
[Transcriptie in modern Nederlands: Dit zijn de lijken van Jan en Cornelis de Witt door een vooraanstaand schilder naar het leven geschilderd, zoals zij 's avonds om elf uur nog aan de wip hingen. Cornelis is degene zonder pruik. Jan de Witt heeft zijn eigen haar. Dit is het enige schilderij naar het leven geschilderd op 20e augustus 1672 en daarom veel geld waard.]
Notes

Anonym (April 1977) Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant, vol. 3, no. 8.
AnonymousUnknown author (1998) ‘Vijanden en oorlogen’, 20 Eeuwen Nederland, 4, p. 93.
Haijer, J.E. (1967) 'De moord op de gebroeders De Wit', Spiegel Historiael, p. 417, with image on p. 424.

Ham, G. van der (juli-augustus 2007) ‘Heldenverering’, Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 7.
References
Source/Photographer www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info
Other versions
File:Jan de Baen - The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers - WGA1149.jpg
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The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers, Jan de Baen, 1682

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