MEULEN, Adam Frans van der
(b. 1632, Bruxelles, d. 1690, Paris)

Crossing the Rhine

1672
Oil on canvas, 49 x 11 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The artist accompanied Louis XIV in several campaigns, and recorded the military acts of the French Army. This painting depicts an episode from the war of Holland, occurring on 12 June 1672.