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c. 1638

Les Petits Paysages, 5

Schelte Adams Bolswert

Flemish, 1586 - 1659

Day and night are simultaneously portrayed to remarkable effect in this engraving after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. The moon rises in the sky at right, while the sun is still setting behind the distant hills at left.

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