1. The term ‘village constable style’ characterizes the sober respectability of the furniture.

2. This description is too general to be linked to a specific painting by De Bock.

3. Said about the character Tillet in La Maison Nucingen (1838) by Honoré de Balzac. See Oeuvres complètes. Paris 1879, vol 8, p. 605.