William Tell Peter Paul According to Robinson

According to Robinson

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

1873 as lot 39 ('Portrait of Miss Morris (afterwards Mrs

This painting was reviously catalogued as Monamy

William Tell Peter Paul According to RobinsonThe 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