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Cimon and Pero
Also titled Cimon en Pero
Willem Drost (Amsterdam, 1633–1659)
c. 1655 - c. 1657
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 156 cm x width 117.5 cm x depth 3
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Broere Charitable Foundation
- 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
Pero secretly breastfeeds her father Cimon in prison, sustaining him when he was sentenced to death by starvation. Pero thus kept him alive and he was eventually pardoned. This story from Roman antiquity is about ultimate charity and self-sacrifice. The painting is a rare masterpiece by the young and short-lived Rembrandt pupil, Willem Drost.
