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Optics
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Optics

Pieter Sluyter · 1693 · etching; engraving; paper

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 description
Credit lineZichtkunde. 1693. Pieter Sluyter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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