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Caption: ceiling piece, Anthony Elliger, 1739, Signature front, bottom right: A. Elliger 1739, canvas, oil paint, painted, Overall dimensions according to catalog 1983: 334 × 429cm 3340 × 4290mm, eagle, minerva, mercury, neptune, boy, mythology, arnhem, Ceiling piece including the mythological representation: the robbery of Ganymede. At the top center you can see Jupiter, who has assumed the form of an eagle. He holds the young painter boy Ganymede in his mouth, which he just brought to Olympus. Underneath two figures and on the left Hebe, recognizable by the drinking bowl that she holds up in her right hand. At the bottom left a group of five figures: Apollo with the lyre, Neptune with the trident, Bacchus with the staff why a grape branch twists and a wine glass, Vulcan with the hammer and a female figure, seen from the back. At the bottom right a group of three figures: Venus probably, because without attributes, Mars with weapons and Mercury with wings and a wing staff, with two figures in the background on the right. The cloth has the shape of a four-lobed medallion, with small right angles protruding between the lobes. Signed bottom right. Ceiling piece is mounted in a plaster ceiling that covers the entire ceiling. Belongs to interior inv.nr. 2387, 1920
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Image size: 6666 × 4992 px | 95.2 MB
Print size: 56.4 × 42.3 cm | 2624.4 × 1965.4 in (300 dpi)