RUBENS, Peter Paul
(b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerpen)

The Discovery of the Child Erichthonius (detail)

c. 1615
Oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

But one of three daughters of Cecrops, overcome by curiosity, opened the basket and discovered that the child had a serpent's tail for legs (or that a serpent lay beside it).