Mars
Francis van Bossuit (Brussels, 1635–1692)
c. 1682 - 1692
- Medium
- ivory
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- height 44 cm x width 14 cm x depth 11.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds and P. van Dullemen
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Van Bossuit carved a large number of ivories for his most important patron, Petronella de la Court, wife of an Amsterdam merchant. His impressive figure of Mars formed the centrepiece in her cabinet of art, together with an ivory Venus that has not survived. The slightly curving form of Mars follows the arc of the elephant tusk from which Bossuit carved this figure.
