Dish with Diana and Nymphs Bathing

1540 (Renaissance)

25.1 cm 4.7 cm

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The front of this dish illustrates an episode from the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE-17 CE) “The Metamorphoses.” On the left, Diana, chaste goddess of the hunt, bathes with her nymphs. On the right, the hunter Actaeon, lost in the woods, stumbled upon a clearing where he caught a...

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Seligmann, Rey & Co. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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