Scene from the wedding of Messalina and Gaius Silius, possibly an episode from a play, Nikolaus Knüpfer, between 1645 and 1655

Scene from the wedding of messalina and gaius silius. The central figures are gaius silius dressed in military fatigues with theater boots and a wine glass in his hand and messalina, a beautiful shapely young woman with bare breasts who drags gaius from a bed. On the bed on the left is a woman with a hat on her right foot who is touching the inside of gaius' thigh with her right hand. Two men are standing on the table looking out the window. A fourth man in the foreground falls drunkenly from his chair while trying to draw his sword. Next to him stands a woman with a lute. In the left foreground a large wine cooler with a vine. Object Type: painting. Genre: history painting. Date: between 1645 and 1655. Dimensions: drager Height: 60 cm (23.6 in) drager Width: 74.5 cm (29.3 in). Medium: oil on panel. Depicted People: Gaius Silius, Messalina. Collection: Rijksmuseum. Scène uit het huwelijk van Messalina en Gaius Silius, mogelijk episode uit een toneelstuk Rijksmuseum SK-A-4779