Vrede van Rijswijk, ter ere van Willem III
Medium
striking (metalworking)
Dimensions
7; 119.95
About this artwork
Gift of J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff
About the Artist
Nicolas Chevalier · 1828–1902
Born in May 1828 of a Swiss father and a Russian mother. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres (1976) mentions that Chevalier left Saint Petersburg, Russia, for Lausanne, Switzerland, at the age of 17; Thieme-Becker mentions that from 1845 he was living in Lausanne.