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Pyramus and Thisbe
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Landscape with the dead Pyramus by a fountain. He has stabbed himself because he thought that Thisbe had been killed by a lion. Thisbe discovers her dying beloved, whereupon she commits suicide with Pyramus's sword. On the left in the background, the lion sits under a stone arch. Below the image, an explanatory text. The first line from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 4, line 61. In the upper left, the sign of the Lion from the zodiac. The print is part of an album.
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Credit linePyramus en Thisbe. 1653 - 1654. Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.