Why are the peasants "Dutch"?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"All these horizontal here, these comrades in arms, look just as rosy as 
a bunch of Dutch peasants dreaming of their certain resurrection in the 
next few minutes." (pp. 4-5)

Is Pynchon thinking here of a particular Dutch painting from art 
history, or is this the first appearance of the Katje Borgesius thread? 
Or both or neither?


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