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DiaporamaDiana and Her Nymphs Hunting, Abraham Genoels (attributed to), c. 1685
Although the female figure in antique costume, right, holding an arrow and hunting spear has no distinguishing emblem of a crescent moon on her forehead, she may well have been intended to represent the goddess Diana, famed as a huntress, particularly in view of the servile attitude of the nymph who offers her a bow. The subject has been so identified since it entered the museum. The present picture, whose support is unlined and on its original ‘pegged strainer’, is evidently by the same artist as another in the collection, Nymph and Shepherd Making Music in a Landscape (SK-A-1839), also long considered to be Abraham Genoels. Indeed, the present picture has been said to be signed on the reverse. But it is doubtful whether the inscription on the label, attached to the stretcher, can be described as a signature; written most likely in an eighteenth-century hand when Genoels was better known than he is today, the label could rather be that of a dealer or early owner.10 Although the same size as SK-A-1839, it seems not strictly speaking a pendant; perhaps both are best described as being a set of two or part of a larger series of picturesque landscapes. For further discussion, see SK-A-1839. Gregory Martin, 2022
abraham genouil (1640 – 1723)
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About this artwork
- Title: Diana and Her Nymphs Hunting, Abraham Genoels (attributed to), c. 1685
- Artist: abraham genouil
- Year: 1685
- Original dimensions: 24.0 x 32.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Movement: Baroque
- Creative period: Mature Period
- Keywords: “flemish painting” , painting” , 17th century painting
- Perceived brightness: deep_shadow
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