Raden Saleh
Saleh Syarif Bustaman | |
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| ꦫꦢꦺꦤ꧀ꦱꦭꦺꦃꦯ꦳ꦫꦶꦥ꦳꧀ꦨꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦩꦤ꧀ رادين صالح شريف بوستامن | |
 Raden Saleh in c. 1872 | |
| Born | Saleh Sjarif Boestaman c. 1811 |
| Died | 23 April 1880 (aged 68–69) Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Notable work |
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| Movement | Romanticism |
Early life
Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman was born in 1811 in the village of Terboyo, near
Travel to Europe
Young Raden Saleh was first taught in
It was from Kruseman that Raden Saleh studied his skills in portraiture, and later was accepted at various European courts where he was assigned to do portraits. While in Europe, in 1836 Saleh became the first indigenous Indonesian to be initiated into Freemasonry. From 1839, he spent five years at the court of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became an important patron.[6]
From Schelfhout, Raden Saleh furthered his skills as a landscape painter. Raden Saleh visited several European cities, as well as Algiers. In The Hague, a lion tamer allowed Raden Saleh to study his lion, and from that his most famous painting of animal fights was created, which subsequently brought fame to the artist. Many of his paintings were exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Several of his paintings were destroyed when the Colonial Dutch pavilion in Paris was burnt in 1931.
Return to the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia
Raden Saleh returned to Dutch East Indies in 1852,
Upon returning, he married a wealthy
On his first wife's death, Saleh remarried to a young aristocratic woman of Yogyakarta Sultanate, Raden Ayu Danudirdja, in 1867 and subsequently moved to Bogor, where he rented a house near the Bogor Botanical Gardens with a view of Mount Salak. He later took his wife to travel in Europe, visiting countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy. His wife however contracted an illness while in Paris, the exact illness is still not known, and was so severe that they both immediately returned to Bogor.[7]: 30 She died on 31 July 1880,[7]: 30 following her husband's death three months earlier.
Death
On Friday morning, 23 April 1880, Saleh suddenly fell sick. He claimed that he was poisoned by one of his servants, and subsequently died; however post-mortem examination showed that his circulatory system was disrupted due to a clot near his heart. Saleh was buried two days later in Kampung Empang, Bogor. As reported in Javanese Bode newspaper, 28 April 1880, his funeral was "attended by various landheeren [landlords] and Dutch officials, and even by curious students from nearby school."[7]: 30
Painting
During his stay in Paris, Saleh met Horace Vernet whose painting frequently took themes of African wildlife. Compared to Vernet, Saleh's painting seems to be more influenced by the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. This could be seen in one of Saleh's work, Hunting Lion, 1840, which has similar composition to Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. However, Werner Kraus, a researcher in the Southeast-Asian Art Center of Passau, Germany, said that Saleh "never mentioned Delacroix. Perhaps he saw Delacroix's, and possibly Vernet's, works during an exhibition."[7]: 23
The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro
Raden Saleh is particularly remembered for his historical painting, The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro,, believing he was there for negotiations of a possible cease-fire. He was captured through treachery and later deported.
The event had been previously painted by a Dutch painter Nicolaas Pieneman, commissioned by Lieutenant General Hendrik Merkus de Kock. It is thought that Saleh saw this painting during his stay in Europe. Saleh made significant changes in his version of the painting; Pieneman painted the scene from the right, Saleh from the left. Pieneman depicts Diponegoro with resigned expression, while in Saleh's he appears to be outraged. Pieneman gave his painting the title Submission of Prince Diponegoro, while Saleh gave The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro. It is known that Saleh deliberately painted Diponegoro's Dutch captors with large heads to make them appear monstrous, as opposed to the more proportionally depicted Javanese.[7]: 26
Raden Saleh’s work has been regarded as a sign of incipient nationalism in what was then the Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.[9] This can also be seen it the depiction of Diponegoro's men. Pieneman had never been to the Indies, and so depicted Diponegoro's men in a more Arabic fashion. Saleh's version has a more accurate depiction of native Javanese clothing, with some figures wearing batik and blangkon.
Saleh finished this painting in 1857 and presented it to Willem III of Netherlands in The Hague. It was returned to Indonesia in 1978 as a realization of a cultural agreement between the two countries in 1969, regarding the return of cultural items which were taken, lent, or exchanged to the Dutch in the previous eras. Even though the painting did not fall under any of those categories, because Saleh presented it to the King of the Netherlands and it was never in the possession of Indonesia, it was nevertheless returned as a gift from the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, and is currently displayed at the Merdeka Palace Museum in Jakarta.[7]: 26
Works
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Winter Scenery (1830) -
Portrait of Jean Chrétien Baud (1835) -
Portrait of Johannes van den Bosch (1836) -
Lion attacking a horse (1840) -
Self-portrait (1841) -
Deer Hunt (1846) -
Javanese Landscape, with Tigers Listening to the Sound of a Travelling Group (1849) -
Six Horsemen Chasing Deer (1860) -
View of Dieng Plateau (1872) -
A Flood in Java (1865-1875), modelled afterGéricault's The Raft of the Medusa -
Javanese Mail Station (1876) -
Watercolor study of a walking tiger -
The Lion Hunt (1841) -
A landscape in the Dutch East Indie / Indonesia
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See also
- Habib Ali Kwitang
References
- ^ Kraus, Werner (2012). Raden Saleh: Awal Seni Lukis Modern Indonesia. Jakarta: Goethe Institut. p. 22.
- ^ Raden Saleh: The Romantic AristocratArchived 27 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Prince Raden Saleh: Aristocrat, Artist, Scientist and Patriot". Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
- ^ Kraus, Werner (2012). Raden Saleh: Awal Seni Lukis Modern Indonesia. Jakarta: Goethe Institut. p. 22.
- ISBN 979-8391-31-4. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- ^ "Prince Raden Saleh: Aristocrat, Artist, Scientist and Patriot". Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Pioneer Between Worlds", National Geographic Indonesia, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-78462-151-3. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ Novia D. Rulistia (2 August 2013). "Raden Saleh's masterpieces to undergo restoration". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
Further reading
- Karnadi, Koes (editor) 2006) Modern Indonesian art : from Raden Saleh to the present day introduction by Suwarno Wisetrotomo; with contributions by Agung Hujatnikajennong ... [et al.] Denpasar : Koes Artbooks. ISBN 979-8704-02-9
- Heuken, Adolf (1982). Historical Sites of Jakarta. Jakarta, Indonesia: Cipta Loka Caraka.
- Yayasan Untuk Indonesia (2005). Ensiklopedi Jakarta: culture & heritage, Volume 3. Jakarta, Indonesia: merintah Provinsi Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, Dinas Kebudayaan dan Permuseuman, Indonesia. ISBN 978-979-8682-52-0.
External links
Media related to Raden Saleh at Wikimedia Commons
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