Here comes Sinterklaas
This 1798 illustration shows the Dutch gift-giver Sinterklaas in bishop’s garb riding his horse through the streets of Holland while tossing gifts to a trailing mob of children.
Sinter Klass P Servaas 1766
Sinter Klass P Servaas 1766
Sint Nikolaas 1760
Sint Nikolaas 1760
Sinter Klaas 1750
Niklaus und Klaubauf (Johann Michael Mettenleiter, 1790). This 1790 painting of St. Nicholas and Klaubauf, in which the evil helper Klaubauf attempts to put a child into a bag while St. Nicholas stands silently behind, is one of the earliest depictions of Nicholas’ evil helpers.
Sint Nicolaas, Goet Heylig Man 1750
Niklaus und Klaubauf (Johann Michael Mettenleiter, 1790). This 1790 painting of St. Nicholas and Klaubauf, in which the evil helper Klaubauf attempts to put a child into a bag while St. Nicholas stands silently behind, is one of the earliest depictions of Nicholas’ evil helpers.