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Optics
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Ceiling piece with the personification of Optics. She looks through a telescope at the sky. Next to her a putto also looks through a telescope. On the left two putti study small objects. In the background the observatory of Versailles. Print forms part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineZichtkunde. 1693. Pieter Sluyter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.