Landscape with Venus and Adonis, Adonis looks impatiently at Venus. He has his spear in his hand and wants to go hunting. Above them two doves symbolize the love between them. Venus scratched herself on Amor's arrow and fell in love with Adonis. In the margin a two-line caption in Dutch., print, print maker: Matthijs Pool, (mentioned on object), after painting by: Nicolas Poussin, (mentioned on object), Publius Ovidius Naso, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1696 - 1727, paper, etching, engraving, height, 224 mm × width, 298 mm

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