Ceiling painting in the front of a dollhouse; depicting the personification of dawn, aurora, with a burning torch in her right hand, seated on a cloud with the orange glowing sun in the background. Three angels with a circle, an arrow and loose flowers float around her. The painting is framed by a profile frame painted in yellow grisaille tones with a laurel wreath; the four spandrels are filled with a shell and leaf volutes in white grisaille tones. Object Type: painting. Genre: mythological painting. Date: between 1690 and 1710. Dimensions: exclusief omlijsting Height: 35 cm (13.7 in) Width: 24.3 cm (9.5 in). Depicted People: Aurora. Collection: Rijksmuseum. Aurora Rijksmuseum BK-NM-1010-245
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