Cornelis Troost

'Rumor erat in casa' (There was a commotion in the house)

189 voorzijde
189 detail signatuur
189 ingelijst
189 voorzijde
189 voorzijde

Cornelis Troost
'Rumor erat in casa' (There was a commotion in the house)

Not on view

This artwork is part of a group of five pastels. 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.

Technical details

Meer uit deze serie / More from this series

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

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'Erat Sermo inter Fratres' (The brothers conversed)

188 voorzijde

'Loquebantur Omnes' (Everyone was talking)

190 voorzijde

'Ibant qui poterant, qui non potuere cadebant' (Those who could, walked; those who could not, fell)

189 voorzijde

Cornelis Troost
'Rumor erat in casa' (There was a commotion in the house)

Not on view

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Details

General information
Artist Cornelis Troost (Amsterdam 1696 - 1750 Amsterdam)
Title 'Rumor erat in casa' (There was a commotion in the house)
Object name pastel
Inventory number 189
Material and technical details
Technique pastel, gouache
Material paper on canvas
Dimensions 58.2 x 73.2 cm
Inscriptions
Signed lower left, on a plinth: C. Troost

Provenance

Theodoor van Snakenburg, Leiden, 1740-1750; Jan Tak, Leiden, in or before 1774-1780 (bought for 3,000 guilders); his sale, Zoeterwoude, 5 September 1781 (Lugt 3295), nos. 118-122 (bought in for 2,030 guilders; his widow); Jan Arnout Bennet (son-in-law of Tak), Leiden; his sale, Leiden, 1 April 1829 (Lugt 11989), no. 60 (bought in for 1,600 guilders); purchased, 1829