1648.Banquet at the Crossbowmen's Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Munster,detail.Bartholomeus van der Helst.232×547cm. Rijksmuseum.18 June 1648.The occasion was the signing of the Treaty of Münster, which marked an end to the war with Spain.The captains of the civic guard company shake hands as a sign of peace,and the drinking horn is passed around.The poem on the drum proclaims the joy of Amsterdam’s armed militia that their weapons can henceforth be laid to rest.