
Wedding Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen
1622 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A married couple sitting on the grass, leaning into each other and visibly amused, which is not how marriage portraits were done.
★ 6.8

A married couple sitting on the grass, leaning into each other and visibly amused, which is not how marriage portraits were done.

Two shepherds stop at a skull on a plinth and read the words carved there. Guercino used the motto first, decades before Poussin.