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The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
Jan de Baenca. 1672 - ca. 1675
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The ultimate humiliation: the nude, flayed corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt on public display in the Groene Zoodje, the execution ground on the Vijverberg in the middle of The Hague. On 20 August 1672 they were assassinated by their political opponents. Johan had been the most powerful man in the Republic for close to twenty years, steadfastly supported by his brother Cornelis. But they were held responsible for
everything that went wrong in the year 1672, known as the ‘Year of Disaster’.
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- Title: The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
- Creator: Baen, Jan de
- Date Created: ca. 1672 - ca. 1675
- Physical Dimensions: doek
- Subject Keywords: politieke geschiedenis, Dood van de gebroeders De Witt, Den Haag, Vijverberg, Witt, Cornelis de, Witt, Johan de
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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