File:Jupiter in the Guise of Diana Seducing Callisto by Gerrit van Honthorst.jpg

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Summary

Gerard van Honthorst: Jupiter in the Guise of Diana Seducing Callisto  wikidata:Q28495581 reasonator:Q28495581
Artist
Jacob Adriaensz Backer  (1608–1651)  wikidata:Q19032
 
Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Alternative names
Jakob Adriaensz. Backer, Jacobo Adriaensz. Bacquer, Jacob Adriaensz. Bakker, Monogrammist JAB
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death between 27 August 1608 and 31 December 1608
date QS:P,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1608-08-27T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1608-12-31T00:00:00Z/11
27 August 1651 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Harlingen Amsterdam
Work location
Leeuwarden (1627–1632), Amsterdam (1633–1651), Vlissingen (1638)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q19032
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Jupiter in the Guise of Diana Seducing Callisto [fragment]
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date Before 1651
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 68.3 cm (26.8 in); width: 57.5 cm (22.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,68.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,57.5U174728
Current location
Private collection
Object history Sold at Christie's London, April 22, 1994, lot 152 (as by Gerrit van Honthorst). Since has been reattributed to Jacob Backer. Sold at Sotheby's New York, June 8, 2010, lot 482.
References de Witt, David A. (November 2007) Jan van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam, McGill-Queen's University Press, p. 124 ISBN: 978-0773532755.
Jupiter in the Guise of Diana Seducing Callisto. Sotheby's. Retrieved on 12 October 2022.
Source/Photographer Unknown

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Jupiter in the Guise of Diana Seducing Callisto. Oil on canvas

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