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Still Life with Game and a Greek Stele: Allegory of Autumn
Also titled Stilleven met jachtbuit en Griekse stèle: allegorie op de Herfst
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (The Hague, 1782–1861)
1818
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 146 cm x width 116 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Dead animals, a gun and a powder horn: everything in this still life relates to hunting. The Greek marble stele (memorial tablet) in the background presents a huntress (the goddess Diana?), and the bronze relief in the foreground depicts putti hunting. The pendant of this painting (next to it) also includes a relief, that one showing Venus, the goddess of love, making her toilet.
