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Woman in red drapery embraces a young man with a spear beside a white dog in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

A woman in flowing red drapery embraces a young man in a grey-brown cloak who holds a spear, while a white hound rests beside them. They sit in a wooded landscape with a tree trunk behind them and a pale, open sky at right.

Artist
Joos de Pape
Date
1629
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3385 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1629.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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