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Preparations for the Wedding Feast

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert · 1558 - 1559 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

A king gives his servant the order to invite the wedding guests to the wedding feast of his son. In the foreground, servants slaughter the best fattened cattle for the feast. Below the depiction is a reference in Latin to the Biblical text in Matthew 22. This print is part of an album.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

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Credit lineVoorbereidingen voor het bruiloftsfeest. 1558 - 1559. Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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