{{Short description|Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot}}
{{Short description|Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot}}
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| title= Diana and Actaeon
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| artist=[[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]]
| artist=[[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]]
| year=1836
| year=1836
| type=[[Oil painting|Oil on canvas]], [[history painting|historical]] [[landscape painting]]
| type=[[Oil painting|Oil on canvas]], [[history painting|historical]] [[landscape painting]]
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””’Diana and Actaeon””’ is an 1836 [[history painting]] by the French [[artist]] [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]]. It depicts a scene from the story of [[Diana and Actaeon]] based on the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] poet [[Ovid]]’s ”[[Metamorphoses]]”. Actaeon, a young [[hunter]], comes across the goddess [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] and her [[nymphs]] enjoying a [[nude art|nude]] swim in the woods. In a fit of fury Diana transforms him into a [[deer]]. The painting is also known by the [[alternative title]] ””’Diana Surprised in Her Bath””’. <ref>Tinterow, Pantazzi & Pomarède p.160</ref> <ref>Baetjer p.404</ref>
””’Diana and Actaeon””’ is an 1836 [[history painting]] by the French [[artist]] [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]]. It depicts a scene from the story of [[Diana and Actaeon]] based on the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] poet [[Ovid]]’s ”[[Metamorphoses]]”. Actaeon, a young [[hunter]], comes across the goddess [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] and her [[nymphs]] enjoying a [[nude art|nude]] swim in the woods. In a fit of fury Diana transforms him into a [[deer]]. The painting is also known by the [[alternative title]] ””’Diana Surprised in Her Bath””’. <ref>Tinterow, Pantazzi & Pomarède p.160</ref> <ref>Baetjer p.404</ref>
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{{Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot}}
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[[Category:1836 paintings]]
[[Category:1836 paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
[[Category:Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Diana and Actaeon is an 1836 history painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It depicts a scene from the story of Diana and Actaeon based on the Roman poet Ovid‘s Metamorphoses. Actaeon, a young hunter, comes across the goddess Diana and her nymphs enjoying a nude swim in the woods. In a fit of fury Diana transforms him into a deer. The painting is also known by the alternative title Diana Surprised in Her Bath. [1] [2]
The work was displayed at the Salon of 1836 at the Louvre in Paris. Today the painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, having been acquired in 1975.[3]
- Baetjer, Katharine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865. Metropolitan Museum of Artz, 1995.
- Tinterow, Gary, Pantazzi, Michael & Pomarède, Vincent. Corot. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.
