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Second Excuse: The New Oxen
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A servant of the king, holding a wind instrument, comes to the second guest and invites him to the wedding feast. The guest apologizes with the excuse that he has just bought five yoke of oxen, which he must inspect. Below the depiction is a reference in Latin to the Biblical text in Luke 14. This print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTweede voorwendsel: de nieuwe ossen. 1558 - 1559. Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
