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Three French Soldiers Arrive with a Billet of Quartering at a Dutch Family, 1795
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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In the doorway of a bourgeois home stand three poorly dressed French soldiers showing a billet of quartering to a Dutch maid with a child at her skirt. In the background, the shocked master and mistress of the house at a table. On the left in the foreground, household items. Bourgeois life during the arrival of the French in 1795. See also pendant.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDrie Franse soldaten komen met een biljet van inkwartiering bij een Hollandse familie, 1795. 1795. Johan Daniël de Gijselaar. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
