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Allegory on the power of Venus
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
No one is safe from Cupid’s love arrows; not a king, nor a knight, nor an old man. His mother Venus, to the right of centre, spurs him on. De Bisschop copied a painting by Alessandro Turchi, an artist from Verona, which in his time must have been in the possession of a Dutch collector. The picture is now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineAllegorie op de macht van Venus. 1638 - 1671. Jan de Bisschop. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
