Flemish School, 17th Century, after David Vinckboons Death and Cupid...

Flemish School, 17th Century, after David Vinckboons
Death and Cupid with each other's arrows

Oil on canvas
73 x 93,8 cm ; 28¾ by 36⅞ in.

Catalogue Note:
The extremely fresh painting copies an engraving by Bolswert itself after a composition by David Vinckboons, which represents a satirical allegory of Love and Death in which a young lover overcome with jealousy at the sight of his beloved in the arms of an old man is killed by an arrow fired by Cupid, while the old man himself is the target of an arrow that Death, hidden in the woods behind him, is about to send him.

Ill. 1 Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert after David Vinckboons, Death and Cupid with each other's arrows © The Trustees of the British Museum