Peter Paul Rubens. The four Rivers of Paradise (‘Die vier Flüsse des Paradieses’), ca. 1615 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 208 x 283 cm(!). Also interpreted as depicting female personifications of the four continents sitting with their respective major rivers. Clockwise starting at the front: Africa and the Nile, Europe and the Danube, America and the Río de la Plata, and Asia and the Ganges.

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