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Arcadian Landscape with a Ceremonial Sacrifice
Also titled Arcadisch landschap met een offerfeest
Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam, 1682–1749)
c. 1700 - c. 1749
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 57 cm x width 68 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
These two scenes are painted on copper, a support that allowed Van Huysum to achieve a remarkably smooth and shiny result. Depicted are Arcadian, or idyllic, landscapes, with temples and figures from Classical antiquity. They are small gems intended for an art lover’s collection.
