This picture about educating the young juxtaposes vice and virtue. While the figures in the background attend diligently to their study of artworks from Antiquity, the children playing in the light of the foreground, whose behaviour is marked by foolish idleness and frivolous lewdness, are to be reprimanded.
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München
Citation
Adriaen van der Werff,
Spielende Kinder vor einer Herkulesgruppe, 1687,
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/ZKGPJJZxgA (Last updated on 25.05.2022)
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