拍品專文
The present work, which shows affinities with the Diana and Nymphs of circa 1617 in the Gemldegalerie Alte Meister, Cassel (Inv. no. GK83), and with the Olympus in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Inv. no. 4889), can also be compared with Peace and Abundance binding the Arrows of War of 1622, sold in these Rooms Jan. 11, 1991, lot 82 ($66,000). A likely period of execution would seem to be circa 1612-22.
Meleager was the son of a king of Calydon, a city near Aetolia. At his birth the Fates decreed that he would not die until a log of wood burning in the hearth was completely consumed. His mother snatched it out of the flames and preserved it. But his father angered the goddess Diana, and as a punishment she sent a wild boar to ravage the countryside. Meleager and a band of companions were sent out to hunt it, but the first to wound the boar was Atalanta, the virgin huntress, who Meleager loved. Once the boar was slain he presented her with its head and pelt as a trophy, but in so doing caused an argument among his party, and in the heat of the ensuing fight Meleager killed his two uncles. On learning of their deaths, his mother threw the log back into the fire and sealed Meleager's fate (Ovid, The Iliad, 9:430-605).
Meleager was the son of a king of Calydon, a city near Aetolia. At his birth the Fates decreed that he would not die until a log of wood burning in the hearth was completely consumed. His mother snatched it out of the flames and preserved it. But his father angered the goddess Diana, and as a punishment she sent a wild boar to ravage the countryside. Meleager and a band of companions were sent out to hunt it, but the first to wound the boar was Atalanta, the virgin huntress, who Meleager loved. Once the boar was slain he presented her with its head and pelt as a trophy, but in so doing caused an argument among his party, and in the heat of the ensuing fight Meleager killed his two uncles. On learning of their deaths, his mother threw the log back into the fire and sealed Meleager's fate (Ovid, The Iliad, 9:430-605).