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Banquet of the Gods
Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen, Paulus van Vianen (II), 1580 - 1613
Saturn, with his sickle and hourglass, is seated in the middle foreground. His wife, Rhea, is at the far right. With their sons Jupiter (god of the sky), Pluto (lord of the underworld) and Neptune (god of the sea) and other mythological deities, they sit down to a banquet that can hardly be called festive. The drawing is a design for a silver plaque of 1604, on view in Gallery 2.3.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1990-38
- Dimensionsheight 239 mm x width 343 mm
- Physical characteristicspen in bruin, penseel in bruin en enig blauw, rood krijt