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Frederick Henry and Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz at the Siege of ’s Hertogenbosch
Also titled Frederik Hendrik en Ernst Casimir bij het beleg van Den Bosch
Pauwels van Hillegaert (Amsterdam, ca. –1658)
c. 1629 - c. 1635
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 47.1 cm x width 63.1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Prince Frederick Henry and his cousin Count Ernst Casimir pose triumphantly on their horses before ’s-Hertogenbosch. Frederick Henry points his commander’s staff at the Habsburg-occupied city now being stormed by Dutch forces. It was not for nothing that he was nicknamed ‘the conqueror of cities’. He captured a series of cites from the Spanish. The retaking of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 1629 was one of the most important.
