Room 225 with a view to room 214, 1915 - 1923 Canvas Print
Here in the passage between the room with paintings from the Van de Poll collection and the Portrait Room a statue of Ferdinand Leenhoff: 'The nimff Echo', behind it the design for a monument for 'the Brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt', also by Leenhoff. View from room 225 to 214. See photo 85. Left behind a wooden bench. In 1915 the leather benches were replaced by the wooden ones The west wing of the museum has four painting rooms with skylight (260-263) that are completely similar to the rooms in the east wing (225-228) Only the painted decoration of the friezes and vaults is different in each room. De Stuers afb. 51 gives a picture of the painting in two adjacent rooms in the west wing. The following text is included in the frieze of this room: 'By disposition of will of 25 December 1879, Jonkheer Jacobus Salomon Hendrik van der Poll, alderman of the municipality of Velzen, born in Amsterdam 28 July 1837, died there 23 February 1880, bequeathed his collection of paintings to 'Rijks Museum in Amsterdam.' 'In addition, one can see the blazons of Amsterdam by Hendrik Muilman, from whose collection half of the collection of the Poll came from. On the opposite wall is the coat of arms of the donor.' (The Stuers) Plate no 56 in the book of the Stuers shows two fragments of this decoration, image 13 shows fragements of the mosaic floor: D room 228, E room 227, F room 225, G room 226. The figures are formed from black yellow and white lines, while the background is yellow and red, or red and green.
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