Louis XIV

Louis XIVA reduced copy of a three quarter length portrait by Rigaud of which there is a version in the chteau de Chenonceau. Another half length copy is at Versailles.

taken from Canto XIV is dedicated to the story of the crusader Rinaldo and the Saracen sorceress Armida

Meijer (oral communication

The artist was the son of the history painter Herman Saftleven the elder

as well as the exact manner of her lying

omitting the buildings and the figure of Salnt Joseph in the background

Birds nesting in the dovecote may have been kept for their flesh and eggs

Wouwermans was the son of one artist (Pauwels)

there are traces of a signature on the rocks

He visited Rome in 1650-1

with a different group of figures bottom right

hence his association with the gridiron

Tancred and Erminia