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Fantasy Landscape with Saint Carlo Borromeo
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Ferguson, who was born in Holland but spent much of his life in France, specialised in painting sculpture and ruins. This elaborate fantasy is based on the French classicising landscape tradition, and includes the figure of St Charles Borromeo indicating an oversized antique sarcophagus which bears a relief of Christ's nativity. It is clearly allegorical, but the exact meaning is obscure.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFantasielandschap met de heilige Carlo Borromeo. c. 1700 - c. 1720. Henry Ferguson. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
