Allegory of the Peace of Aachen, 1748, Simon Fokke, 1749 , The Simon Fokke Collection - room 7

Allegory of the Peace of Aachen, 1748, Simon Fokke, 1749

Allegory of the Peace of Aachen, 1748, Simon Fokke, 1749 — Allegory of the Peace of Aachen, 1748

Painter: Simon Fokke
Year: 1749
Medium: paper

Description: Allegory of the Peace of Aachen concluded October 18, 1748 between the Allies (Republic, England and Austria) on the one hand and France, Prussia and Spain on the other. Europe kneels with the bull before the Peace with a horn of plenty, behind her the Dutch Virgin, in the clouds the Fame, centrally an obelisk with arms of the warring parties. On the right Father Time pulls aside the curtain to reveal the spectacle, in the foreground on the left the Singing or Poetry. Design for a print.

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Room 1

Classical scene, helping a man sitting on the ground

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Taking away the fruit harvest

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Autumn: depiction of hunting

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
A pagan is strangled in front of Pope Urban II

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Henrik II the Saint does penance by flagellation

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Louis (the Pious?) as a penitent

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
The martyrdom by burning of four monks in a village square

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
The death of Charles the Bald

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Figure study of a standing man, seen from the back

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Figure study of a standing man, almost en profil to the right

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Figure study of a seated man with a cane

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Minerva holds laurel wreath over boy with bull

Simon Fokke, 1745 - 1747

Room 2

Design for the address card of Jacob Roeters

Simon Fokke, 1735 - 1741
Disputing gentlemen at physics instruments and weck bottles

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Heavy storm and flooding at Halfweg, Nov. 15, 1775

Simon Fokke, 1775
The bathing damselflies spied

Simon Fokke, 1760 - 1763
Design for the title print of The Glorious, or the Humiliated Haughtiness

Simon Fokke, 1730 - 1739
Portrait of Denys Dulignon

Simon Fokke, 1750 - 1784
Brave act of the councilor Crassus

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Caesar's corpse shown to the people

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Bruiloft te Kana

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Design for title page: Christelyke Zeden Spiegel

Simon Fokke, 1741
Luther gevangen genomen

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Portrait of a man, seated

Simon Fokke, 1739

Room 3

Seated man

Simon Fokke, 1710 - 1779
Young nobleman, to the left in bent

Simon Fokke, 1710 - 1779
Standing gentleman with one hand at head

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Study sheet with three standing figures

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Study sheet with three standing figures

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Table decorations at the golden wedding of mayor Gerrit Hooft, 1757

Simon Fokke, 1757
Farewell to William V and wife at the Buitenamstel, 1768

Simon Fokke, 1768
Baptism of Prince William V, 1748

Simon Fokke, 1748
Murder of the Chinese at Batavia, 1740

Simon Fokke, 1740 - 1784
Seating of William V in the U.O.C., on his visit to Amsterdam in 1768

Simon Fokke, 1771
Seating of William V in the W.I.C., on his visit to Amsterdam in 1768

Simon Fokke, 1771
Period bed of the princess governess, Anna of Hanover, widow of Prince William IV

Simon Fokke, 1759

Room 4

Room 5

Entry of the Prince and Princess of Orange in Leeuwarden, 1777

Simon Fokke, 1777 - 1784
William V appears as Knight of the Order of the Garter on the steps of Huis ten Bosch, 1752

Simon Fokke, 1752
Heavy fire at the Raampoort in Amsterdam at the line lane Het Speeljagt, 1761

Simon Fokke, 1761
Allegory of the founding of the Holland Society of Sciences, 1752

Simon Fokke, 1752
Illumination of city hall for William V and Wilhelmina of Prussia, 1768

Simon Fokke, 1769
Arrival of William V and Wilhelmina of Prussia at the Haarlemmerpoort, 1768

Simon Fokke, 1768 - 1769
Arrival of William V and Wilhelmina of Prussia at the Haarlemmerpoort, 1768

Simon Fokke, 1768 - 1769
Opstandige scheepsbemanning te Amsterdam, 1629

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Drowning of the Crown Prince of Bohemia in the Holle Sloot on the IJ off Amsterdam, Jan. 17, 1629

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Riot in the Nieuwmarkt over an alleged sorceress, 1624

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Looting of the Remonstrant meeting place in Amsterdam, Feb. 2, 1617

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Fire of the Regulierspoort at Amsterdam, 1618-1619

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784

Room 6

Hugo de Groot pleads for tolerance in the Amsterdam vroedschap, 1616

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Burial of Jacob van Heemskerck in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1607

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Leicester's meal at the city hall in Amsterdam, Oct. 4, 1587

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
The killing of Captain Herman van der Helling, Nov. 23, 1577

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Gilles of Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, being overtaken at Amsterdam, 1574

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Riots in front of the English consul's house in Amsterdam, 1688

Simon Fokke, 1777 - 1781
Looting of Captain Spaaroog's house during the Aansprekersoproer in Amsterdam, 1696

Simon Fokke, 1779 - 1781
Looting of the Pinto house during the Aansprekersoproer in Amsterdam, 1696

Simon Fokke, 1779 - 1781
Tilting Jan Rooden gate tower in 1692 earthquake

Simon Fokke, 1779 - 1781
Joy of taking Namur, Sept. 28, 1695

Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784
Allegory of the 100th Anniversary of Dutch Freedom, 1648-1748

Simon Fokke, 1748
Allegory depicting the arrival of William IV at The Hague, 1747

Simon Fokke, 1747

Room 7

Room 8

The flight of Hugo de Groot, 1621

Simon Fokke, 1742

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