The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65 · Oil on canvas

The Dream of Aeneas is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian artist Salvator Rosa dating to c. 1660–1665. It depicts a scene from the Roman poet Virgil's Aeneid in which an embodiment of the Tiber river speaks to the Trojan hero Aeneas while he is dreaming. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.