The Cabinet
The Watch of the Love Stories — c. 1650
Four myths painted around one watch case.
- Work
- Enamel watch with mythological scenes
- Maker
- J. Vrijthoff le Jeune
- Date
- c. 1650
- Held by
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-15075)
- License
- Public domain (Rijksmuseum PD mark)
- Master
- 4000×5730px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
Four classical love myths painted in enamel around a single watch case — the Judgment of Paris keeping the hour. The watch as a private gallery: mythology carried against the heart with a movement inside, a narrative complication before the word existed. The case told stories; the dial only told time. The Rijksmuseum's imaging renders the enamel at a scale where individual brushstrokes of the 1650s stay legible on paper.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Watch of the Love Stories — c. 1650 printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-15075), served under the institution’s stated license (Public domain (Rijksmuseum PD mark)) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-15075) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
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