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A rhinoceros in Amsterdam

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges Thursday 20 March 2025 All the versions of this article: English , français

20/3/25 - Acquisition - Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum - As every year, there were many museum curators browsing the aisles of the TEFAF, which closes its doors today (see the article); several works have thus joined the public collections, including a Rhinoceros, exhibited by the Munich gallery Kunsthandel Mehringer, which was acquired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [1] This 18-th century terracotta attributed to Petrus Camper represents a very specific animal, a female called Miss Clara, which the Amsterdam museum honoured in an exhibition in 2022 (see the article).

: Attribué à Petrus Camper (1722-1789)
Clara, 1742-1745.
Terre cuite - 31 x 52 x 21 cm
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Photo : Kunsthandel Mehringer; See the image in its page

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