Javanese Court Officials, anonymous, 1820 - 1870 Dutch, The Netherlands, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. ( The axiom ‘clothes make the man’ is also held in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but ‘types’. The accurately rendered garments and batik motifs indicate not only the region from which these men came but also information about their rank and status. These persistent, confident figures are exceptional and were probably painted by a non-Western artist. In European depictions, Indonesians were usually depicted as adversaries, colonial subjects or ‘innocent’ primitives. )

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Size: 3543px × 9951px
Location: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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