MAKE A MEME View Large Image Flemish - Diana and Her Nymphs after Their Hunt - Walters 372498.jpg Hunting was a privilege and favored pastime of the aristocracy Most hunting took place in parks and private hunting preserves like those maintained by Archdukes Albert and ...
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Keywords: Flemish - Diana and Her Nymphs after Their Hunt - Walters 372498.jpg Hunting was a privilege and favored pastime of the aristocracy Most hunting took place in parks and private hunting preserves like those maintained by Archdukes Albert and Isabella near their palace in Brussels Depictions of hunts with ancient gods and goddesses of Olympus especially Diana and her nymphs lent a romantic aura to an everyday pastime The animals and birds were painted by Jan Brueghel the younger The sleeping figures of Diana and her nymphs and the satyrs watching them are by another unidentified artist between 1630 1639 Baroque oil on panel cm 63 7 97 3 accession number 37 2498 23582 Justice James A Murnaghan Dublin Ireland date and mode of acquisition unknown Dr Francis D Murnaghan Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Francis D Murnaghan Fund date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of the Dr Francis D Murnaghan Fund 1973 place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Flemish paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of Diana and nymphs Paintings of sleeping Diana Landscape paintings by Jan Breughel II
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