Allegorie op de Vrede van Osnabrück, 1648 1648

Crispijn van de Passe (II)'s "Allegorie op de Vrede van Osnabrück, 1648" (1648) is an etching that commemorates the Peace of Westphalia, a series of treaties ending the Thirty Years' War. The artwork depicts Peace, personified as a woman, descending from heaven, offering an olive branch to a kneeling figure representing Germany. The scene is set within a room where diplomats are gathered at a table, symbolizing the negotiations that led to the peace. The inscription at the bottom of the artwork includes a poem in Dutch that praises the arrival of peace in the "German Land." This etching is part of the Rijksmuseum collection in Amsterdam.