Sacrifice antique dans une grotte

The painting shows a dark cavern with ruined arches and tall columns, a light source from the left revealing a crowd gathered around an antiquarian ritual. In the foreground a white ox stands near kneeling figures and offerings, while groups in draped classical garments cluster around an altar and vessels, with additional figures and statues on a raised terrace in the background. The color palette is warm and earthy—browns, ochres, and golds with touches of white, blue, and red—and the scene is rendered with strong chiaroscuro in a broad Flemish Baroque manner.