A portrait of a young woman as Diana, standing half length in a landscape, wearing a green dress and chemise, a wrap around her waist - a fragment

The present picture is a fragment of the group portrait of a family of eleven members, signed with initials C.B.P. and dated 1642, oil on canvas, circa 185 x 210 cm. (Maier-Preusker, loc. cit.). The group portrait was offered for sale in 1926 and must have been cut down at an unknown date. Maier Preusker states that this family portrait is one of a group of four works, painted by the artist in Delft, in the 1640's. The other three are in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours and Musée Marmottan, Paris. By portraying a member of a family in Arcadian costume, Couwenbergh followed the current Dutch pastoral taste, inspired by the court of Friedrich and Amalia von Solms in The Hague.