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Allegory on the French Invasion of 1672
Also titled Allegorie op de Franse invasie in 1672
Johannes van Wijckersloot (Utrecht, 1625–1687)
1672
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In 1672 the Netherlands was invaded by the French. That disaster is allegorically rendered in the drawing at which the seated man looks: the Dutch lion is defeated, its weapons in pieces, the gate to its enclosure broken; above, the French rooster crows triumphantly. Symbolizing the other side is the standing man with an orange feather in his cap: he is a supporter ofWilliam III of Orange, who would avert the French threat.
