Diana and Calisto
About this artwork
Callisto raises her arm in horror as her companion nymphs reveal her pregnant form to the goddess Diana, on the left. Callisto had been seduced by Jupiter. As a result, Diana, goddess of the moon, hunting and chastity, banished her from her realm. The ample female figures are characteristic of Jordaens’s nudes. The drawing corresponds quite closely to a rectangular oil painting of the subject which Jordaens made in about 1640 (Private Collection).
Updated before 2020
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artist:Jacob Jordaens (1593 - 1678) Flemish
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title:Diana and Calisto
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date created:About 1640
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materials:Pen and black ink over black chalk, brown, ochre and grey watercolour, white bodycolour on paper (incised)
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measurements:Diameter: 10.20 cm (laid down)
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credit line:Purchased 2000
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accession number:D 5505
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Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens
After Rubens’s death in 1640, Jordaens succeeded him as the leading artist in Antwerp. Jordaens had collaborated with Rubens as an independent assistant on several projects, and they shared the same master in Antwerp, Adam van Noort. Jordaens married Van Noort’s daughter in 1616. His paintings...
