‘Wartime suffering’. A Dutch female sutler with her dead husband and baby during the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. Painted in 1826 by Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout.
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‘Wartime suffering’. A Dutch female sutler with her dead husband and baby during the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. Painted in 1826 by Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout.
by DeRuyter67
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutler)
The painting said to be based on the diary of one sergeant Jan Willem van Wetering who fought at Waterloo. It tells of a sulter girl who, shortly after giving birth to her child, searches desperately and in vain for her husband. According to his captain, he was still alive, but she did not believe him and insisted that her husband had perished.