Still Life with Game and a Greek Stele: Allegory of Autumn

Still Life with Game and a Greek Stele: Allegory of Autumn

SK-A-1104

signature and date: ‘G.J.J. van Os. 1818’

Dead animals, a gun and a powder horn: everything in this still life relates to hunting. The Greek marble stele (memorial tablet) in the background presents a huntress (the goddess Diana?), and the bronze relief in the foreground depicts putti hunting. The pendant of this painting (next to it) also includes a relief, that one showing Venus, the goddess of love, making her toilet.

E. Bergvelt, 'Nationale, levende en 19e-eeuwse meesters : Rijksmusea en eigentijdse kunst (1800-1848), Nederlands Kunsthistorische Jaarboek 35 (1984), p. 93, afb. 13.

painter: Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os

1818

olieverf op doek

height 146 cm x width 116 cm

purchase 1824

Public domain

E. Bergvelt, 'Nationale, levende en 19e-eeuwse meesters : Rijksmusea en eigentijdse kunst (1800-1848), Nederlands Kunsthistorische Jaarboek 35 (1984), p. 93, afb. 13.

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