# Cimon and Pero

- By: Willem Drost (Amsterdam, 1633–1659)
- Date: c. 1655 - c. 1657
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 156 cm x width 117.5 cm x depth 3
- Credit line: On loan from the Broere Charitable Foundation
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1802--1e77b1eaa0473baac219d2bc4d7a8412)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/71148e20e28073c2032fe19ec996cafd.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.