Public domain
Fable of the Swan and the Stork
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In the foreground, a stork and a swan. The fable describes how a stork asks a dying swan why he can still sing so beautifully at the end of his life. The moral of the story teaches that death is not a sad ending but a joyful beginning.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFabel van de zwaan en de ooievaar. 1608. Aegidius Sadeler (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
