Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn An early work comparable with

An early work comparable with the Landscape with a Rider resting in the Museum der Bildenden Künste

St Petersburg

Burke proposed that it might be a replica

Copy of a composition by Vrancx

The cows and standing sheep are repeated in a composition by Roos at Dresden

Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn An early work comparable withThis little painting was formerly attributed to Domenichino (1581 1641). Its recent cleaning has confirmed its quality, and it may have originated in the master's studio. A painting in Helsinki's Sinebrychoff Museum, of Apollo and Daphne, repeats the nude figure. Both paintings, not necessarily by the same artist, presumably have their roots in a single drawing, probably of the famous classical statue of Venus Callipygeia ('Venus of the beautiful