The Punishment of the Arrogant Niobe by Diana and Apollo, Pierre Charles Jombert, ca. 1772
The Punishment of the Arrogant Niobe by Diana and Apollo, ca. 1772, Oil paint on canvas, mounted on board, 14 1/16 x 11 1/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Pierre Charles Jombert (French, Paris 1748–1825), This lushly painted, highly colored study is for Jombert’s canvas (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris) depicting the Greek mythological figure Niobe, who boasted with such hubris of her great fortune to be the mother of seven daughters and seven sons that it compelled the deities Diana and Apollo to assail her children with arrows
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