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Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois - Travellers Ambushed by Brigands [c.1670]

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Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois - Travellers Ambushed by Brigands [c.1670]

This painting is intended to be hung up high; over a door, for example. It was part of a series of four seasons that came from a house on the Herengracht canal in Amsterdam. This one represents summer. Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain that ripens in the summer, is standing in the centre. Berchem is known mainly as a painter of Italianate landscapes, although he also painted decorative scenes, such as this allegory.

[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on canvas, 94 x 88 cm]

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