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Diana and Nymphs Resting from the Hunt

Diana and Nymphs Resting from the Hunt

Object type Painting
Genre Classical Mythology
Date 1620-1621
Dimensions 58.5 x 100 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Collaborators Peter Paul Rubens
Our attribution Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #348
Ertz 1979, #354 as Jan and studio
Location Paris, France
Collection Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Accession numbers inv. #68-3-1
Tags Hunting, Dog, Rubens, Forest, Nude, Classical, Mythological, Musical instruments
Ertz 1979, cat. #354. fig. 464
Van Mulders 2000, p. 121
Van Mulders in Brussels 2007, p. 113, fig. 8
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #348
Destined by Infanta Isabela for Tervueren Castle but never went there
1640 Antwerp Rubens Estate, inv. #269 (as "Une Diane allant à la chasse ou les figures sont de Monsr Rubens et les bestes et le paysage de Breugel")
1677 Mentioned in Roger de Piles "Conversations" as "being in Richelieu Collection"
E.A. Honig
July 5, 2013

Noticably inferior in quality to this museum's other Rubens/Brueghel collaboration. According to Van Mulders, a version of this (or the picture itself) was in Rubens's estate and was offered to Amalia van Solms in 1645.