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Quintus Fabius Maximus Meeting his Son on Foot
Also titled Quintus Fabius Maximus gaat te voet zijn zoon tegemoet
David Vinckboons (Mechelen, 1576–1629)
c. 1608 - c. 1609
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 180 mm x width 288 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with a contribution from the P. Langerhuizen Bequest
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This is the right half of a drawing. The man at the left is Quintus Fabius Maximus visiting his son, the consul of Rome. The father has arrived on horseback and is ordered by his son to dismount, for a civilian must approach a consul on foot. The father, who was only testing his son, instantly obeys. The young consul and his retinue can be seen in the left half of the drawing, which is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
