Bacchus is handling the king a goblet, but at the very same moment the king is being slapped on the cheek by his concubine Apame, who has taken off his crown and is placing it on her own head in illustration of 3 Esdras 4:29.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hendrick_Goltzius" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hendrick Goltzius"><span title="German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558–1617)">Hendrik Goltzius</span></a>
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1614<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1614-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
Musée des Beaux-Arts at Verviers