Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Hunt (Q60465206)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
mythological painting (Q3374376)
artist:
Peter Paul Rubens (Q5599)
Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Q68851958)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
Northbrook collection (Q97142972)
Hermann Göring Collection (Q2647884)
Munich Central Collecting Point (Q1053735)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
Hermann Göring Collection (Q2647884)
Munich Central Collecting Point (Q1053735)
owned by:
Thomas Baring (Q7787384)
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (Q337771)
Alphonse James de Rothschild (Q2494198)
Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (Q2443913)
location of final assembly:
Flanders (Q234)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.190
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, wears a crescent on her forehead, also identifying her as the moon goddess. Diana lived apart from men, accompanied by a group of nymphs; she often represented unattainable beauty or chastity. With a nymph at left fending off a lustful satyr, Rubens refers to a struggle between vice and virtue, combining a sensual display of female bodies with a moral undertone. To bring the viewer more fully into the narrative, Rubens pulls the full-bodied figures to the front of the picture plane, and Diana steps forward, activating the space between viewer and subject. The nymph at the right has the features of Isabella Brant, the artist’s wife, and can be compared with Rubens’s portrait of her, also in the museum's collection.
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