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Aeneas Crowning Cloanthus
Also titled Aeneas kroont Cloanthus
Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht, 1616–1680)
c. 1661 - c. 1663
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 218 cm x width 232 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Bol’s painting, made for the Amsterdam Admiralty, shows a scene from Virgil’s Aeneid. Aeneas congratulates one of four ships’ captains who competed in a race. All four were rewarded on their return, even the captain who threw his helmsman overboard for disobeying an order. The painting was accompanied by a poem by Vondel, stressing the importance of firmness and generosity in good government.
