Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Arnout Vosmaer, The Hague, sale Scheurleer, The Hague, 17 March 1800, p.314, lot 86
  Private Museum of Repelaer van Spijkenisse, Haarlem
  H.P van de Wall Repelaer van Puttershoek, Dubbeldam
  H. van de Wall Repelaer
  Anon. sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 24 September 1985, lot 69
  
  Exhibited:
  Tentoonstelling Hollandsche Interieur XVIIIe eeuw.
  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 14 March-3 May 1931
  Aart Schouman, Museum of Dordrecht, 27 August-2 October 1960
  
  Literature:
  Catalogus van de tentoonstelling Het Hollandsche Interieur in de XVIIIe eeuw (1931), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.17, no.46
  William Buckley, Aert Schouman (1931), p.18, no.1, pl.8
  W.B.Honey, Glass (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1946), p.135
  L.J.Bol, Herdenkingstentoonstelling Aart Schouman 1710-1792 (Dordrecht Museum, 1960), pp.29 and 88, no.168
  W.Smit, Uniquely Dutch eighteenth century stipple-engravings on glass (1992), pp.98-99, Cg3
  
  The inscription translates as 'Peace and Freedom'.
  
  The period around 1743 (the date of the engraving) was politically uneventful in the history of the Dutch Republic. Therefore it would seem doubtful that Schouman added 'Peace and Freedom' to commemorate a contemporary occasion. The inscription, which hardly relates to the subject portrayed, was perhaps added to the foot of the glass at a later date.
  
  In 1776 Jacobus van den Blijk engraved the same picture on a goblet in an identical manner but placed the figure virtually upright and not leaning back as on the present example. His copy occupies only the top two thirds of the height of the bowl.

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Category: Decorative Arts / Glass

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