Actaeon verrast Diana en haar gezellinnen, Willem van Mieris, 1693

Title(s)

Actaeon verrast Diana en haar gezellinnen

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1919-52

Artist

• draughtsman: Willem van Mieris

Dating

9-Dec-1693

Material

• parchment (animal material)
• deck paint
• watercolor (paint)
• gouache (paint)

Measurements

height 175 mm × width 205 mm

What

• Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193)

Credit line

• Purchased with a contribution from the P. Langerhuizen Bequest

Acquisition

purchase 29-Apr-1919

Copyright

Public domain

• Een Haarlems-Amsterdamse duivelskunstenaar : de schilder en vrijdenker Johannes Torrentius, 1588-1644, p. 148-149 (afb.)