Whatever Asselijn’s original intent might have been, this painting — his masterwork — came to be understood as a political allegory. Inscriptions by a later hand have labeled the eggs “Holland,” the dog “enemy of the state,” and the swan “grand pensionary;” a probable reference to Johan de Witt, who was lynched by an Orangist mob at the onset of the Franco-Dutch War.
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Jan Asselijn : “The Threatened Swan” (c. 1650)
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