David Rijckaert III Antwerp 1612 - 1661

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Description

David Rijckaert III
philemon and baucis giving hospitality to jupiter and mercury
oil on panel

Catalogue Note

The figure of the old woman Baucis chasing a goose can also be seen, in reverse, in another larger depiction of this episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses by Rijckaert, which is in the Stift Seitenstetten, Austria.