Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx Wood Print

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This is a reproduction of Joachim Patinir’s Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx which was completed between 1515 and 1524. The scene is from Virgil’s Aeneid and Dante’s Inferno and mixes in elements from Christian tradition. The largest figure is Charon, the ferryman of the dead across the River Styx, who holds in his boat a human soul. The destination of the soul is either Hell to the right of the painting or Heaven, to the left. Cerebus, the three headed dog, guards the gate of Hades on the right. An angel on the left shore beckons the soul to choose Paradise. The original is an oil on wood which measures 25 by 41 inches. It is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

If you are interested in commissioning an oil painting on canvas of this art print, please send me an email attroy@trycap.com.

Troy Caperton was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1949. Raised in South Louisiana from 1953, he graduated from Baylor University in 1976 and pursued a Masters in History at the University of Louisiana until 1988 when he moved to Austin, Texas. For over ten years Caperton has been selling his original art and reproductions of original work and the masters through various portals on the Internet. One of his works won a Juror’s Prize at Austin’s Art Erotica in 2010. He has always been employed in helping positions and continues to produce works for the enjoyment of the public.