William Tell Peter Paul The ship can be identified

The ship can be identified from the stork on her stern as the Ooeivaar

A lost picture almost identical to this

drowned tragically in a Venetian canal in 1642

This painting was reviously catalogued as Monamy

William Tell Peter Paul The ship can be identifiedThe fourteenth century Swiss legend of William Tell would have no doubt been particularly resonant for Bourgeois, whose father was from Switzerland. The tale centres on William Tell obeying governor Gessler's order to shoot an apple from his own son's head. He did, before killing the governor and liberating Switzerland from Austrian rule. Schiller's famous tragedy on Tell appeared in 1804, around the time this picture was painted. The influence of De