# Croesus Showing his Riches to Solon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCKEN, Frans II]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel ## Commentary Francken's most productive period began around 1620. His compositions were assembled eclectically from a repertoire of elements used in endless repetition and variation. Besides the characteristic female heads that were already a hallmark of his work before 1620, typical male figures also appeared from now on: men in turbans, Phrygian caps or with bald heads. These figures abundantly populate the paintings which were so characteristic of these later years, as in the Croesus Showing his Riches to Solon. ## Related artworks - [Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, 25 October 1555,]() - [An Antique Dealer's Gallery]() - [Arcadia: a Pastoral Landscape]() - [Art Room \(detail\)]() - [Art Room]() - [Ballroom Scene at a Court in Brussels]() - [Christ in the Garden of Olives]() - [Crucifixion of St Andrew]() - [Feast of Esther]() - [Sebastiaan Leerse in his Gallery]() - [Supper at the House of Burgomaster Rockox]() - [The Baptism of Christ \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()