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Landscape with drinking Jupiter
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In a pasture landscape with a large tree on the left, cows and goats graze. In the foreground on the left, two goats; under one of them Jupiter as an infant drinking milk from the udder of Amalthea. On the right, a pig. A group of three peasants stands talking to each other. A swarm of birds in the sky. Below the image, one line in Dutch. Allegory on the socio-economic situation in the Netherlands in 1644. Print from a series of five allegorical landscapes with proverbs.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineLandschap met drinkende Jupiter. 1644. Hendrick Hondius (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
