Detail of Swan Love by yifaty. Click for full image.

Jan Asselijn (1610 – 1652, wiki) was a 17th century Dutch painter. One of his paintings, The Threatened Swan, which portrays a swan aggressively defending its nest, has often been used as a symbol of Dutch national resistance, although it is unknown if Asselijn intended it to be so.

In the above image, digital artist yifaty merged Asselijn’s swan with Bouguereau’s 1901 work L’amour s’envole (Love Takes Flight) for a Ren(n)union contest on Worth1000, in 2005. Below (from left to right) you can see the full Swan Love picture, and the two original paintings by Bouguereau and Asselijn, resp. Click to visit the gallery where you will find many more remastered versions of the original Bouguereau work.

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