Times of Day/ Aurora, 1660. From the 'Times of Day', after Nicolaes Berchem. The first in the series, it depicts dawn and features an entertaining cast of characters, both human and animal in a countryside setting. A peasant saddles his donkey with a bell around its neck, with a horned cow watching nearby. On the left, a blacksmith struggles to put a shoe on the hind foot of a donkey watched by a peasant woman carrying her child. A cave doubles up as the blacksmith's forge. A group of sheep and a donkey are all seated contentedly in the foreground.

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Size: 4960px × 4365px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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