Image:Peter Minuit portrait New Amsterdam 1600s light.jpg

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Portrait of Peter Minuit, the Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631 and founder of the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638. The portrait shows period clothing, with a white feather wrapped around the hat. The image is retouched from an oval image, padding the corners and lightening the face.

Source URL (German website): http://www.wesel.de/kommunen/wesel/dommedia.nsf/Files/minuit_.gif/$File/minuit_.gif?OpenElement .

The containing webpages did not have any copyright notices, and the portrait is over 300 years old.

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Public license

The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. This photograph of the work is also in the public domain in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.).

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