Les Hollandais Jurant la Trève de 1609

Steel engraving by Palas after van der Helst. 'The militia banquet of the St George archery guild of the civic guard of Amsterdam; Dutch officers sitting around an abundant table and celebrating the Treaty of Münster, a large drum in central foreground with a sheet inscribed with a poem by Jan Vos, a maid serving a turkey pie in left background, a window opening onto a park in the background, a wine cooler with a jug in right foreground; proof before letter' -- British Museum. Steel engraving by Palas after van der Helst. 'The militia banquet of the St George archery guild of the civic guard of Amsterdam; Dutch officers sitting around an abundant table and celebrating the Treaty of Münster, a large drum in central foreground with a sheet inscribed with a poem by Jan Vos, a maid serving a turkey pie in left background, a window opening onto a park in the background, a wine cooler with a jug in right foreground; proof before letter' -- British Museum. Oblong medium folio, matted; margins intact; clean. From the series 'Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun'. Liechtenstein-Hauslab Collection, 1951.