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De regenten van het Spinhuis en Nieuwe Werkhuis te Amsterdam
Creator
Karel DujardinDutch painter (1622-1678) · 1626–1678
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- 1669
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
A servant bringing a letter temporarily interrupts a meeting. The other five men are the regents of the Amsterdam Spinhuis, the female house of correction. The women imprisoned there for theft or begging spent most of their days spinning. Affluent citizens like these gentlemen administered these sorts of institutions. Thus was civic peace maintained.
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