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Putto Lovingly Chases Another Putto
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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A putto with an arrow in his chest walks with folded hands behind another putto, who makes a rejecting gesture. Just as violence damages a body, so love can hurt a heart. In the background, a solitary figure in a landscape. Forty-first emblem from Emblemata Amatoria.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePutto loopt verliefd een andere putto na. 1686. Jan van Vianen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
