Diana and Actaeon, Paulus van Wtewael, 1565 - 1611 print The young Prince Actaeon on hunting in the forest, where he encounters Diana and her nymphs in the bath. Diana changes the prince because he had seen her naked, for punishment in a deer. On the left in the background you can see how Actaeon is attacked and torn apart by its own dogs. In the oval accompaniment an edge in Latin. Northern Netherlands paper engraving Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193). Actaeon as a stag is devoured by h
Diana and Actaeon, Paulus van Wtewael, 1565 - 1611 print The young Prince Actaeon on hunting in the forest, where he encounters Diana and her nymphs in the bath. Diana changes the prince because he had seen her naked, for punishment in a deer. On the left in the background you can see how Actaeon is attacked and torn apart by its own dogs. In the oval accompaniment an edge in Latin. Northern Netherlands paper engraving Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193). Actaeon as a stag is devoured by his own dogs
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