Lot Essay
For the subject, see Ovid, Metamorphosis, 4:665-739
Possibly inspired by the picture of the same subject by Adam Willaerts and Cornelis van Poelenburgh, signed and dated by both artists 1622, in the Sankt Annen Museum, Lübeck. Another rendering of the subject by Cornelis Willaerts was with H.J. Bungs, Berlin, 1929 (photographs in the R.K.D, The Hague)
See illustration
Possibly inspired by the picture of the same subject by Adam Willaerts and Cornelis van Poelenburgh, signed and dated by both artists 1622, in the Sankt Annen Museum, Lübeck. Another rendering of the subject by Cornelis Willaerts was with H.J. Bungs, Berlin, 1929 (photographs in the R.K.D, The Hague)
See illustration