# General Daendels Taking Leave of Lieutenant-Colonel Krayenhoff

- By: Adriaan de Lelie (Tilburg, 1755–1820)
- Date: 1795
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 45 cm x width 60 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2231--dfe38443dde4f6e3059c0eead4fcc40e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c797e5331ce5b9b58d6a3c40de7017c7.jpg
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The French army, which had invaded the Netherlands at the request of the Dutch Patriots, had already reached Utrecht when Daendels, a Dutch general in French service, sent Krayenhoff to Amsterdam. He was to ask the city council to step aside so that a new –Patriot –government could be installed before the French arrived. The change of authority took place in Amsterdam that same evening, 18 January 1795.