'Nemo Loquebatur' ('No one was speaking'). 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

'Nemo Loquebatur' (No one was speaking).

마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

Cornelis Troost

'Nemo Loquebatur' ('No one was speaking')

1740

These five pastels belong together. They form a humorous story that shows a group of distinguished gentlemen having a sociable evening, which starts off respectably and gradually gets completely out of hand through drink. The name of the series, ‘NELRI’, is a composition of the initials of the five Latin titles at the tops of the frames.

 

Here, Troost did not work in oil but in gouache (opaque watercolour with gum arabic) and pastel (soft chalk). This technique was very popular in the eighteenth century.

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