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Guercino / Landscape with bathing women

Landscape with bathing women

1620s · Oil on canvas

Women bathe in a stream in a wide, luminous landscape, an early work by Guercino.

ArtistGGuercino
MovementBBaroque
LocationRotterdam, Netherlands
Genremythological painting
Dimensions36 × 53 cm

Why it matters

Two women bathe in the last rays of the setting sun, while in the dark on the right two dogs tear at a stag: a reference to Actaeon, who was turned into a stag after seeing Diana bathing.

Did you know?

  • It dates from around 1620.
  • Guercino painted it after a stay in Venice.
  • A servant carries a bowl and a red cloth.

Based on the German Wikipedia article Das Bad der Diana (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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