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Tom Haartsen
In this painting we see a heaving crowd on Queen's Day in Amsterdam.
On the top left of the crowd Constant has depicted himself with his former dog Waldo on his shoulder (Jean-Clarence Lambert, "Constant. L'atelier d'Amsterdam", 2000, p. 49)
Inpired by the floodings of January 31st 1995 in the Dutch area Rivierenland. The floodings were very severe and forced 250.000 people to evacuate their homes for several weeks.