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Afternoon
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Afternoon

Adriaen Collaert · 1590 - 1597 · engraving; paper

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

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Afternoon. Allegory with Apollo as Meridies, the personification of the afternoon, in the clouds. Below on earth activities related to the life stage of youth or young adulthood: working in the fields and love couples in a garden. Part of the series of the four times of the day. Under the representation an inscription of 4 lines in Latin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineMiddag. 1590 - 1597. Adriaen Collaert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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