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Lot Essay
Another interpretation of the subject, also signed and dated 1671, is in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, inv. n0285 (R.Klessmann, Die Holländischen Gemälde, 1983, p.17, n0285, ill.). The foreshortening of the foreground figures suggests a viewpoint from below.
The subject is taken from Livy, I:8.
The subject is taken from Livy, I:8.