Diana and Actaeon (Prague)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Classical Mythology |
Date | 1606-1609 |
Dimensions | 51 x 89.5 cm |
Support | Panel |
Medium | Oil |
Collaborators | Hendrick de Clerck |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #365 Ertz 1979, #146 |
Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
Collection | Narodní Galerie |
Accession numbers | inv. #DO-4130 |
Tags | Dog, De Clerck, Forest, Nude, Classical, History, Landscape |
Copy sold Berlin (Lepke) May 8, 1906 #41 (panel, 25 x 38)
There had been suggestions that the landscape here was by Alsloot, who did often collaborate with De Clerck. But there is a version of the same subject at the Prado by Alsloot and De Clerck and Ertz is correct to point out that it has an entirely different landscape from the present work, which is much more like a Brueghel landscape. Still, this is an unusual work for Jan, an unusual size and more oblong format than most of his compositions.